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New Member
posted Oct 30, 2019 5:03:34 AM

I want to claim my charitable contributions this year and I don't know what answer to give to the question of overriding the optimization option.

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New Member
Oct 30, 2019 5:03:36 AM

TurboTax automatically optimizes your donation contributions for the best outcome on your federal taxes. In some cases, this will still result in a small tax payable because of provincial calculations.

Some people choose to override the optimization to reduce their tax payable in the current year, rather than carrying forward the difference to a future year which is more optimal in the long term.

If you're not confident in overriding the optimization, just leave it as is.

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New Member
Oct 30, 2019 5:03:36 AM

TurboTax automatically optimizes your donation contributions for the best outcome on your federal taxes. In some cases, this will still result in a small tax payable because of provincial calculations.

Some people choose to override the optimization to reduce their tax payable in the current year, rather than carrying forward the difference to a future year which is more optimal in the long term.

If you're not confident in overriding the optimization, just leave it as is.