Your screen shots are from the TurboTax web site and not the IRS web site.
I can read your highlights from TURBO TAX that TURBO TAX says to file an “amended return”.
1) This is NOT official information from the IRS. I need both hands to count the number of issues that Turbo Tax has gotten wrong.
2) It does NOT say to file a 1040X. It says file an amended return. The 1040X Form has NO POSSIBILITY of declaring a STATUS CHANGE. It only allows for FINANCIAL changes. The 1040X is useless for the purpose you are asserting. Look at the 1040X Form for yourself. LOOK AT IT. Where exactly on that form would you put the information for a status change?
3) Submitting a true 1040 (an original with your true data actually on it) to supplant the firstly submitted ‘blank’ e-filed 1040, IS the act of submitting an “amended” return.
Return #2 supplants Return #1
A return WITH DATA, supplants the return with NO data.... thus it is amending the status. Submitting Return #2 IS the amending step, in the cases of the original ‘blank’ e-file being deleted.
