Amending a 2nd time

Pevans — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:26:14 GMT

I have to amend for a second time, every time I get to the end it keeps showing this.

How do I get past this because I see no option to click on what it says.

Re: Amending a 2nd time

MelindaS1 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:48:06 GMT

It's possible to file an amended return of an already-amended return, but it's not exactly supported by the software, so I believe you'll need to follow the below Community advice for the correct method(s) to prepare your re-amended filing. You should also wait until your initial amended return has been accepted by the IRS, and you can check that here.

Basically, to do the second amended return you have to start with a dummy "original" return that incorporates the changes that were made by the first amended return. Then you can simply go through the normal amending process. There are two ways to produce the dummy original return. Both ways are hard to explain and to understand.

One way always works, for both federal and state, but it's for desktop only, and you have to have a copy of the .tax file for the actual original return that you filed, before the first amended return. You make a copy of the .tax file for the original return with a different name. Open the copy and make the changes that you made in the first amended return, but without going through the amending process. That gives you an original return that incorporates the changes from the first amended return. A variation of this method, if you don't have the .tax file for the original return, is to create a new return from scratch, reproducing the original return. But that's a lot of work and very error-prone.

The other way is to open the first amended return and delete the Form 1040X. That will leave you with what appears to be an original return, but incorporates the changes from the first amended return. This will usually work for the federal return only. In theory it should work for the state also, but some states don't let you delete the amended form, or it immediately comes back after you delete it. Sometimes deleting the state amended form makes the federal 1040X reappear. The results vary for different states, and sometime vary even for the same state, depending on the exact sequence of steps that you follow. With some states there seems to be a problem even deleting the federal 1040X.

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