And just how are you preparing an amended return? You cannot amend in online software now. Online tax preparation and e-filing are permanently closed for 2018 returns. The system is in transition from 2018 to 2019 software and will not be usable until sometime in December. If you have gone in to your online-prepared 2018 return somehow and are making changes to it, you are messing up your return and need to change it back to exactly the way it looked when you filed it.
When you prepare a Form 1040X to amend you have to work from the original return EXACTLY as it was when you filed it.
You will not be able to use the software to amend that return until later in December, so you need to wait.
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