@sswatson wrote:
last year my husband I filed under my turbo tax account and this year we used his well it rejected our income tax stating that our agi was different in 2018 but its still pulling up the incorrect amount and I want to go back and use the account we used last year will that mess anything up?
I assume you are only talking about joint returns both years since you didn't say otherwise and used the term "we."
If your 2019 efile attempt was rejected, your return is not considered to have been filed. So after a rejection you can file it however you want. But if you know the correct 2018 AGI amount, and if the rest of your return is correct, you could just edit/correct the 2018 AGI amount in the FILE section and resubmit the efile.
Have you looked at your 2018 return as filed to see what the correct AGI is?
I'm not sure why you used a different account this year. If you had used the same account as last year, the 2018 information should have transferred into your 2019 return. When you have multiple accounts, it can make it difficult to keep track of all that from year to year.
You said: "it's still pulling up the incorrect amount"
As I mentioned, if you know the correct 2018 AGI, you can edit/correct that prior to resubmitting, unless you just want to start over in the other account. But how did it pull up an amount at all? Last year did your husband start a 2018 return in his account? If so, other incomplete info from 2018 could have transferred into your 2019 return, too. So if you do continue to use the same account, review the return and be sure everything else is correct, too, prior to filing.
But if you wish, you can use last year's account If you start a 2019 return in last year's account, 2018 info should transfer into your 2019 return. You still need to review all of the transferred info carefully.
TIPS:
- If you filed a joint return in 2018, you both enter the same total AGI to verify your 2019 return. Do not divide it or otherwise allocate it.
- Use the 2018 AGI from the original 2018 return--not an amended one.
- If you filed very late in the year, such as mid-November 2019 or later, you can use an AGI of 0.
