Everything you've described sounds like you went through the filing process and chose to file your actual return by mail.
If you haven't actually filed it (either by mail or efile), you can open it back up to keep working on it. Here's how:
- Log in and go to your 2015 Tax Timeline.
- If TurboTax thinks you are finished, there will be no orange "Take me to my return" (continue return) button.
- So in that case, scroll down to "Some things you can do."
- Choose "Add a State." (you don't really add one; that's just to get the return to open up.)
- Once the return is open, you can keep working on it, and even change the filing method, if desired, when you are ready to actually file it.
NOTE: Do NOT use this method to open a return to make changes to an
already-filed return (one that has actually been mailed or efiled.) If you later need to make changes to an already-filed return, you have to
go through the formal amending process, and your return must start off
exactly as originally filed.
Did you make a payment when you filed your extension?
Here's how to navigate in Online TurboTax to the place to enter the
extension payment you made so you get credit for it on your return. If
you used TurboTax to file the extension, it *might* be prepopulated,
but you should check anyway.
- Under the Federal Taxes tab (or Personal tab in Home and Business)
- Click subtab "Deductions & Credits."
- "I'll choose what I work on." (or it may say "All tax breaks.")
- Scroll down to topic "Estimates and Other Taxes Paid."
- Find subtopic OTHER INCOME TAXES, and click START or Revisit.
- On the "Other Income Taxes" screen choose the type of extension
payment you made and click START (or Update). Be sure you choose the
correct year.
- Continue the rest of that section.
Once you have entered the extension payment (or confirmed it if
it's prepopulated), then before filing verify that you are getting
credit for it. Look at
Line 70 of your Form 1040 and verify
that the Federal figure is correct. A state extension payment is
entered in the same navigation steps as above. If applicable, verify
that it appears on the state return prior to filing.
