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After finished my taxes I realized I forgot to add a deduction that might help my taxes. How can I go back and fix after I paid?

 
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Heather14
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After finished my taxes I realized I forgot to add a deduction that might help my taxes. How can I go back and fix after I paid?

If you have already filed your return, you'll need to wait for your tax return to either be rejected or accepted, if it is rejected you can make any corrections or add any information that you need to add, correct any other errors on the return and resubmit it. 

If it is accepted, you will need to amend your return to make any corrections or add any information that you did not include on your original return. You cannot e-file an amended return as this cannot be filed. You will need to print and mail the amended return in order to file it. 

Please see the following TurboTax FAQ for instructions on how to amend your 2017 tax return in TurboTax.

https://ttlc.intuit.com/replies/3288565


If you have not e-filed your return and haven't mailed in your prepared tax return, you can still make changes to your return.  If you use TurboTax Online and you selected that you wanted to print and mail your tax return, then TurboTax will treat your return as if you have filed.  If that is the case, you will no longer see, "Take me to my return/Continue my return" on your account.  To get around that issue, you will do the following:

  •  Log in to your TurboTax Online account
  • Click on Tax Home
  • Locate your 2017 tax return on that page 
  • Find  "Some things you can do" under your 2016 tax return information
  • Choose Add a State (you don't actually add one; that's just to get the return to open up.)
  •  Now you can make any changes to your return, and reprint it for filing. 




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