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Final K-1 Oil & Gas Ltd Partnership 2018. First K-1 (in 2014) was never put on 2014 return. What should I do?

We always had a CPA doing our taxes until 2017 when I started Turbo Tax.  I am doing 2018 (late) and one of my husband's oil investments dissolved in 2018.  The very FIRST K-1 (2014) for the one that is dissolving was left off of our 2014 return and we need those passive losses.  I REALLY don't want to amend 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017 since it won't change our tax liability in those years.   I THINK I fixed it but am not sure.  See below for what I did and what I was going to send with the tax return.  I'm not sure if sending it is a good idea. 

 

Does the method I used to fix it  make sense?   Should I just  the numbers I came up with and send the return without the manifesto and supporting docs?  It is not a lot of money,  Is there a chance they would look at my 2017 return and see that the passive carryovers are less than what went in to 2018.  

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Brian purchased interest in 2 partnerships (Silver Tusk ($12,500) and Red Hawk Resources I ($25,000)) that provided their first K-1s in 2014.  We gave the K-1s to the CPA but they were not on the 2014 returns and we didn’t notice.   2015 K-1 was on 2015 return but because 2014 was missing the carry forward losses were incorrect on all returns through 2017. 

 

I only noticed because Silver Tusk dissolved in 2018 and the Carry forward passive losses from 2017 were tiny which made no sense.  In going through past K-1s and tax returns I found that 2015 was the first tax return that included the partnerships.

 

I believe that this 2018 return has the correct figures and since there was no taxable income and losses are passive until disposition there is no reason to amend 2014-2017 returns.  I'm including this explanation and supporting documents in case you notice a discrepancy between 2017 and 2018. 

 

Here is how I fixed the carry forward losses.  I input the 2014 K-1s in to Turbo Tax software (2017 earliest I have).  I printed the worksheets and combined the carry forward losses from the 2014 K-1 worksheets with the carry forward losses on the 2017 K-1 worksheets and used the combined figures on the 2018 return.   

 

For each partnership I was going to attach:

  • Calculations showing what should have been on 2017 Return
  • 2014 K-1
  • 2014 worksheet
  • 2017 worksheet

 

 

Thanks again.

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