@sobermeiert it's too late because the IRS will (eventually) process the original tax return before ever seeing the amendment. Figure paper filed returns are taking 6-9 months to process from the time they were submitted. Best I can tell, the IRS, which generally processes in the order the paper files are received, is working on late Feb and early March files. Per their website, they have 7 million waiting to be processefd and this is down from 9.3 millions two months ago.
if you submit an amendment today, figure that will not be processed for up to 12 months from now, well after the original return would have been processed. There are another 2 million amendments waiting on processing.
