Ttax 2009 charity-can't enter data; Sked E problem

A little procrastination tax stress perhaps? Schedule A, Line 16 links to multiple Charitable Organzation supporting forms. These in turn are fed by the Cash Contributions worksheet. Non-cash contributions should be summarized on Line 17, which is fed by multiple non-cash worksheets.

It links to charitable organizations supporting the forms where they require the name of THE organization and its name and its address, that is of no use to me because I cannot conceive of opening up 25 of these forms. It will not recognize such a title as list A, and the sheep refuses to accept any typewriting whatsoever. Tell me how I can make entries to that sheet.

So I just write "See Attached" as the name of the organization, put in the total from my Quicken Charitable print out, and add the print out to my return. Has worked for year.

Yes it should but neither screen would accept the first keystroke!! I couldn't understand what I was doing wrong. Just for the fun of it I opened up last year's 2008 return and found it to be about the same and where I deduced that I had had the same trouble and had overriden the entry just as I had to do this year. From line 16 you get to "select charitable organization", then "create new copy", Then you enter "see listA", that gets you to the charitable organization worksheet with a title list A where they have a matrix of cells called "combined amounts" and a number of grids None of Which will accept any keystroke whatsoever. Where did I miss?

How about making the donations to that well named charity "Various" with the breakdown under Supporting Details...?

I wonder what the IRS would think of this approach - the schedule A instructions don't seem to require anything except the total on line

2. Mike

You can't just enter a total on line 16; you must override in order to make entry. I thought I saw a note somewhere in Ttax that overriding will prevent them from properly executing the alternative minimum tax.

If you open Ttax and go through the motions I think you'll find as I did that there is no place you can enter anything. it looks as if they want a formal identification of each charity including street address as if it was going to be checked against a list of acceptable charities. I'm sure there's someone who has solved this problem and I would be grateful for a step by step description of where to enter the total upstream of line 16.

You open one charitable contribution supporting form. Put "Various" in the charity name and address fields, and the total amount in the amount field. It will fill in line 16.

JimH wrote in news:O_qyn.110906$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe23.iad:

In certain situations distinction is made between a "50%" charity and a "30%" charity. Using "various" will negate the ability of the software to figure that, but if you know that you won't be affected by that then it shouldn't be an issue.

scott s. .

I thank you and this sounds like just the ticket, but I did that on a Charitable Organization Worksheet, but it will not accept any amounts in any of the amount blocks. I even filled out state and my zip code, but still no good. John P

A right click brings up Override which allowed entry. John P

you should be careful - if you couldn't enter into the boxes, that means the entry is actually being taken from somewhere else. You can righ-click and view the "Source" to show where it came from.

You appear to be new to TurboTax and using the basic menus located at the top of the screen.