So this situation involves the fact that one of our children filed her taxes using the free online version of TurboTax and then I filed using the purchased version at the store.
We did her return first as it was easy and she had all her info. Somehow when we filed we missed marking the fact she was a dependent (someone can claim you as a dependent) and her return was accepted and filed and she had her state refund like two days later.
At this time, I was finishing up our taxes and filed and it was rejected because we had claimed a dependent who had not indicated they would be claimed (this is when we actually found the above error by looking back at her form and realizing that in fact the checkbox was not checked. When we tried to amend her return TT said we had to wait until 2/16.
We just went ahead and made the change, but the wording on what TT was telling us was very confusing (so unlike TurboTax, but clearly we found a spot where they could do better). What we seemed to understand is TT would let the IRS know the dependent status was changing but as there was not impact to taxes for her it asked this obscure questions of "Are you filing this amendment for another purpose than to determine your taxes or to amend?" so of course we answered no, but the question really through me off. We both reread it 10 times before selecting no. It then popped up the really confusing fine print, that shared the above, that since it was just a change to dependent status there was not much to send. It did e-file the amendment (state needs to be mailed so that may be another can of worms but can deal with that as needed).
So here are my questions with all that background:
Do we need to wait for the return status to be accepted again before I resend our taxes, or will the IRS not get TT to generate any messages because of the lack of actual tax changes?
Does it take longer for the IRS to accept an amended return? She got a response in under an hour with the original filing but nothing yet with this one.
