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My wife doesn't have an ITIN so I filed as Married Filing Separately for 2020. Then I am trying to append with an ITIN for her by selecting Married Filing Jointly. According to the calculations, I should get a refund of 18K. But Turbotax is showing my return as around 5K. This is really messed up, because when I was originally computing MFS it was showing 13K debt and MFJ was showing 5K return. Since I already filed as MFS, I paid 13K to IRS with the first MFS return. So the amendment as MFJ should get back 13+5=18K.
Upon going through the resultant 1040X form, I noticed that Turbotax was taking initial standard deduction as $24800. That is absolutely wrong because the standard deduction I claimed in MFS was only $12400. My wife didn't file anything since she was NRA with no income or ITIN earlier. There is no way to override this in Turbotax software, standard deduction is automatically taken.
Intuit, please fix this bug, I would have lost $12.4K if I trusted your software. And I already paid you 90$ for your software, and you won't let me talk to a live person without paying another 80$!
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Did you start making edits before selecting AMEND? i.e. changing your filing status?
If your original amounts line 1 and line 2 didn't carry into Form 1040-X when you selected AMEND, you should be able to manually edit any amount in column A.
If not able to do that, TurboTax is not making it easy for you.
Look at the form 1040X …
Column A should have the figures from the original return, Column C the corrected figures and Column B the differences between the other 2 which needs an explanation on page 2 of the form 1040X.
If you completed it correctly you will see an entry on either line 16 OR 18:
On line 16 should be the amount you paid with your original return.
On line 18 should be the amount of your original refund you received.
Then you will see your extra refund on line 22 OR the new balance due you need to pay on line 20.
If column A is incorrect then you will need to undo the amendment process, put the return back to the way it was originally filed and start the amendment process again.
How do I cancel or undo an amended return in TurboTax Online?
If you started amending your tax return by accident and would like to cancel the amendment:
If you started amending your federal return by accident and would like to cancel the amendment, follow this process to correctly "unamend" your federal return:
State Amendments
The best way to "unamend" your state return is to go through your state return from the beginning and keep your eyes peeled for amend-related screens or questions.
The amend question usually appears right at the beginning or towards the end of the state interview (never in the middle).
Correct any entries that have to do with an amended return, e.g.:
If you still can't get rid of your state amendment form, try clearing your state return and starting over.
of course, the OP says they did look at form 1040-X and Line 2 column A is wrong.
Of course he is also posting from the ONLINE version where he cannot use the FORMS mode to make changes to the 1040X line 2 ... all changes must be made in the interview screens.
I see ...
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