Want to edit my return before excepted

[jen21280]

Want to go back and edit my return before it’s excepted

[xmasbaby0]

No---you cannot edit it if you e-filed.

Did you click that big orange button that said “Transmit my return now?”  If you did that, you cannot do anything to fix it yet.  You have to wait for the email that tells you if your return was accepted or rejected. Those emails will not start coming in until the IRS begins to accept/reject e-files in late January.   If you do not see an email, check your spam folder.

You cannot change or add anything on the return that you just e-filed, nor can you stop it.  It is too late, just like when you put an envelope in a US mailbox on the corner.

If you left out a W-2, a 1099G, or a dependent, or a 1099 etc…DO NOT change your return while it is “pending.”  The changes will go nowhere.

Now you have to wait until the IRS either rejects or accepts your return.  If your return is rejected, you will be able to go into your account and make the necessary changes to your tax return and re-submit your return. 

 If the IRS accepts your return, however, then you have to wait longer until it has been fully processed and you have received your refund.  THEN you can prepare an amended tax return and e-file or mail  it in. You have to be able to work from that return exactly the way it was when it was e-filed originally.  You will need to use a form called a 1040X.

  Meanwhile, DO NOT go in and start changing anything on your return in the system, or you will make a mess for yourself.  Sit tight and wait until you see what the IRS does with the return you just e-filed

[ZoltanB45]

Once you have submitted your tax return, you will have to wait and see if the return is accepted or rejected. If rejected, you will have to make the changes needed for the return to be accepted. There will be a notice explaining what the rejection reason was.  In addition, you will also get the opportunity to make the changes you had wanted to as well.

However, if the return gets accepted you will have to wait until you receive your refund prior to amending your tax return. When the turbo tax program is updated later in the season , you will be able to log back into turbo tax and amend the return, adding whatever you have omitted.

To amend the return using Turbo tax, just log back into your account, open the return that you have filed and from  there you will see the tab for amending your return. Here is a link that can help further guide you when you are ready to amend. How to amend a return you've already filed