After you file

Hi @MonikaK1

Thank you for your comment.

The problem I am currently facing right NOW, as we speak is this:

1. I have already e-filed my 2024 tax return (somewhere in February or beginning of March).

2. Haven't paid the amount I was deemed to owe, right after e-filing it. I preferred to wait for about 2-3 weeks more.

3. Did NOT pay attention to a $251 (ouch!) underpayment penalty, which TurboTax quietly sneaked in behind my back. EVEN though during the Interview-style questionnaire I have SPECIFICALLY indicated that I do NOT want TurboTax to calculate that penalty for me. So I feel CHEATED as we speak!

4. I've waited for my 2024 e-filed tax return to be accepted by IRS, and actually waited even longer (for about 3 weeks).

5. And yesterday, April 4th 2025, I have decided to pay everything I owe to IRS for my 2024 tax return. Before attempting that, I first revisited the PDF copy of what TurboTax has e-filed on my behalf, and then I realized the $251 fee having been tacked in BEHIND MY BACK.

6. On April 4th 2024, I initiated an electronic payment through IRS My Account, but for the amount WITHOUT the $251 "penalty".

7. I then initiated an amended 2024 tax return, in which I had attempted to tell IRS that due to a TurboTax BUG, the total TAX amount owed was not the amount indicated in the original return, but it should be $251 LESS.

8. The amended return said $0 (ZERO) refund or tax due, but at least did not show any penalty. Probably because it reports a potential penalty ONLY for the amended return, not in the context of the ORIGINAL return!? VERY CONFUSING EXPERIENCE. It did show that the total amount that I should owe (and pay) to IRS is without the bogus $251.

9. I have ALREADY FILED the AMENDED 2024 return. Will it make any difference?

Can I hope that IRS will see the amended, e-filed 2024 return, as TAKING OVER and overriding the amount that was showing with an additional $251 originally asked to be paid, so that after my scheduled e-payment (which is $251 LESS), then IRS will see my balance to $0 for 2024, and then POTENTIALLY bill me separately for the $251 if THEY (and not the crooks from Intuit!) deem appropriate to do so?

Since the 2024 tax season is ending on April 15th 2025, will IRS see the AMENDED 2024 tax return (filed on April 4th 2025) in a timely manner and understand that the total amount that I OWE is ONLY the tax amount owed, without the penalty stuff?

I do not want to pay the $251. Period. Because it feels bogus.

My 2024 total income had some irregular component (a large variable bonus pay from my employer and 12k capital gains incurred by selling some stock at the end of 2024).

And I don't have time to re-calculate the tax withheld (plus about $10K that I made sure to pay additionally and voluntarily in December 2024) via the other "Annualized" method or whatever that other method is called ("recognize income at the time when it was actually incurred, instead of equally distributed in 56 equal bi-weekly payments throughout the year"). I simply don't have time for this - it is too complicated!

When I created the amended return through TurboTax, it did NOT provide me with an OPTION to indicate how much owed balance I have already paid in the context of the ORIGINAL, e-filed, 2024 tax return.

It only asked me for a date when I will pay, which could be only a date in the future, or EMPTY field. It NEVER asked me about an AMOUNT that I have paid, or which I am planning to pay.

WHAT WOULD YOU ADVISE ME TO DO TO FIX THIS!?

Is there a way to amend an ... already amended tax return? And if YES, how?

I simply want the $251 taken off my balance on IRS.

IRS's web site still doesn't show any balance in my account for 2024 tax year (shows "information not available yet", and it's sitting like that even after waiting for 3 weeks after my original 2024 return was e-filed). Even when considering we're getting so close to the April 15 2025.

Probably the $251 will still show as "must pay", because of TurboTax's STUPID insistence of having decided to have that penalty added to to the actual tax owed, even when I have told it NOT to. I am now required to pay for a TurboTax MISTAKE / bug made by an INCOMPETENT "software architect" and/or "software engineer" (use of lower caps and double quotes is intentional - they DO NOT deserve to be called otherwise, unfortunately)!

If you can help me to fix this situation I am experiencing, I will be eternally grateful and change my opinion (currently at very NEGATIVE level) about TurboTax.

$251 is a lot of money for a sole breadwinner in a family of four!

Thank you.