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Should I date my signature on the amended return with todays date? Or original filing date?

Thanks, I just fixed it.  I had to modify that TurboTax Community link so that TurboTax Community software doesn't mistaken that link as containing a product key... 🤣

Should I date my signature on the amended return with todays date? Or original filing date?

At this time ... TT only allows an amended return to be efiled during the original filing period for the tax year trying to be filed.  For instance the 2021 returns could be efiled up to 10/15/2022 so the amendment also has that deadline.  After that date you can only print, ink sign and mail in the return.

Should I date my signature on the amended return with todays date? Or original filing date?

I agree with everyone else- this is very frustrating. The frustrating part is, everything says it CAN be done, until you get to the last step, then we're blocked because it's 2023.

The other question is, what do I do about 2022 taxes now? I know I can file for an extension, but I don't want to do that. Do I just complete 2022 return as if the IRS accepts my amended return? My changes to 2021 were minor, only to detail some vacation home passive loss carryover. 
Since my 2021 amended return won't be processed for months, with this cause a problem if I e-file 2022 return today?

Should I date my signature on the amended return with todays date? Or original filing date?

"but I don't want to do that. "

 

then you have to take your chances on how IRS will handle it.

 

@Jon Seagull 

Should I date my signature on the amended return with todays date? Or original filing date?

what you submit for 2022 should reflect the correct information shown on your 2021 amendment.

 

@Jon Seagull 

Should I date my signature on the amended return with todays date? Or original filing date?

I had the same problem, and just spent a lot of time with a TurboTax agent. After a lot of searching, she could not find an answer and just said sometimes it doesn't work. 

 

Totally frustrating!

Should I date my signature on the amended return with todays date? Or original filing date?

Turbotax on its own delays opening up for amendments.

Try again later in February when they allow 1040-X to be submitted.

A prior year amendment should go through if 1040 was e-Filed.

Should I date my signature on the amended return with todays date? Or original filing date?

I don't think you are correct. TurboTax says it can efile an amended tax return for states like NY. The issue is it will not accept the current 2024 date and wants a date in 2023 which I do not think NYS would accept. Seems like a software glitch as NYS wants all filings (and amended filings) electronic.

LindaS5247
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Should I date my signature on the amended return with todays date? Or original filing date?

Your 2023, 2022, or 2021 federal Form 1040-X amended return may be eligible for electronic filing if the original return was successfully e-filed using TurboTax. 

 

However, there is a chance your return cannot be electronically filed. If this happens, you'll need to print and mail your tax return.

 

If you are getting the message about the date, you will likely have to mail in your amended return.  Select "Change your filing method to File by Mail".

 

Print, sign and date the amended return.

 

If amending for a year prior to 2021, you need to print and mail your amended return. Follow these instructions to amend a prior-year return.

 

Note: For amendments prior to tax year 2021, you must mail a paper return. While the Internal Revenue Service and your state may accept e-filed amended returns, TurboTax may still have you to mail a paper return. 

 

Three weeks after mailing your amendment, you can start tracking it at Where's My Amended Return? on IRS.gov.


 

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Should I date my signature on the amended return with todays date? Or original filing date?

@Critter-3 I think you are confusing amended returns with extended returns.  10/15 is the last day to file a current year return that has an accepted extension.  This thread is about an AMENDED return which according to TT "can" be filed in TTO within the 3 year window.

Should I date my signature on the amended return with todays date? Or original filing date?

@LindaS5247 Unfortunately your response adds no assistance to the issue being discussed, it simply reiterated what we have all stated is inaccurate and/or incomplete TT information.  

 

The AMENDED returns, if you read the details of the thread, meet all of the requirements for e-filing.  It is within the 3 year window and the original return was e-filed with TurboTax, and the original return has been processed. 

 

TT allows us to create the amended return and STATES it IS ELIGIBLE and after completing validation it presents the Transmit Now button, only then does it say the date of signing must be between 1/1/22 and 12/31/22 (for a 2022 return).


There is a software issue.  Either the developers have put in place conditions of validation that they haven't shared with anyone else on the planet so we don't know what they are testing for, or their current validation code simply has an error in it, i.e. they are processing incorrectly on the last step of date validation.

 

The amended return I was attempting to e-file in April 2023, was for the 2021 and it is a VERY SIMPLE tax return for my college-aged kidult.  I can't imagine what complexity it has in it that "might" make it not eligible.   It's one of the simplest tax return you can file, actually probably would have been faster to write it out than fill out TT.

 

To restate previous notes, the software says the amended return is eligible to be e-filed.  Yet it fails due to a [false] validation being enforced by the software that the signature date must be inside the calendar year of the ORIGINAL filing.  It should instead be validating that the signature is within THREE years of the filing date of the original return (with extensions factored in).

Should I date my signature on the amended return with todays date? Or original filing date?

@kaydee 

If e-Filing, enter any date that satisfies TurboTax.

IRS will use your amendment submission date.

 

So far, I've seen a couple of filers say the can e-file 1040-X one year back, but noone has 

reported success with two years back that I saw.

 

Should I date my signature on the amended return with todays date? Or original filing date?

"If e-Filing, enter any date that satisfies TurboTax."
I assume that would work, technically. But my fear is the IRS would reject the filing because it was backdated instead of using the current date. TT should allow you to send the amended return with the proper (i.e. toady's) date. Seems to be a software glitch. Not an IRS eFiling issue.

Should I date my signature on the amended return with todays date? Or original filing date?

Also, I am trying to file an amended 2022 return, a simple one at that (my son). It was filed less than a year ago but TT will not let me send the amended return because of the date, even though it was originally submitted via NYS eFiling and processed. It is a software issue for sure. The filing has been less than 12 calendar months but we are in a different year now and TT cannot handle it.

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