JotikaT2
Employee Tax Expert

After you file

It depends.

 

How did you report your income?  

 

Did you include your 2018 income amounts in your 2019 tax return?  

If so, you will need to amend your 2019 return to only include the items from 2019.

 

Amend return

 

You will then need to prepare a 2018 return to report your items from 2018.  

Below is a link with instructions on how to download the prior year tax return software.

 

How to prepare a prior year tax return

 

Both of these returns will need to be mailed in.  However, there will be a delay in processing the returns as the IRS is not processing paper returns at the moment due to Covid-19 and social distancing policies in effect.  

 

IRS operations

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