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March 12, 2022
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overriding the filing status in Ohio CCA local return incorrectly reduces the federal charitible deduction limit

  • March 12, 2022
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Reporting what I consider a bug.  My federal and state and status is married filing joint (MFJ), but I have Federal Schedule E income that I pay local taxes on and report to Ohio's Central Collection Agency (CCA).  The Schedule E income is earned only by me, so my filing status for CCA is single. The CCA return inherits the MFJ filing status from the federal worksheet, so I must override the CCA local return's filing status to single.  This override has the unexpected side effect of (incorrectly) reducing the federal charitable deduction limit from the $600 MFJ limit to the $300 single limit. Notably the override does not seem to affect any of the other values controlled by the federal filing status.

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    Hal_Al
    Employee
    March 14, 2022

    Huh?

     

    Are you saying changing filing status affects your charity deduction on your CCA or on your Federal return? 

     

    There is no charity deduction on a CCA form.

    Even though you only need to report Schedule E income, on CCA, you can still use MFJ status. Just enter the Schedule E income. 

    If you have something "tricky", you may want to do the CCA form by hand or at the CCA site, rather than in TT.

    qncwglmlAuthor
    March 14, 2022

    I said that overriding the filing status in Ohio CCA local return incorrectly reduces the federal charitable deduction limit from $600 to $300.