Okay, here’s some good news on this front. I have, all these years, stayed with TurboTax because I felt these folks were the experts. My thinking was that if TurboTax couldn’t deal with this problem all these years, how could we expect the little guys to do it. But this year, after paying for and using this year’s TurboTax and being disappointed that they still haven’t fixed it, I decided to go the extra mile and try the free software provided by another supplier. To my surprise and delight that free software handled my donations perfectly without external prompting from me. The free program saved me the $1,350 I would have lost if I had trusted TurboTax’s Donations Optimizer.
