Why can't I submit amendment to 2022 online?

[untuit]

I submitted my year 2022 taxes online back in apr 2023. I need to amend that return. I made a trial run with ttax and at the end of the process, where it asked me to save and print the amended return, I clicked Done and it then offered to send the return online. That's what I expected. However after starting over with an untouched, saved copy of the 2022 return, it no longer offers to send the return online. I started from exactly the same file, untouched since I filed in 2023. How can I send the amended return online?

[VolvoGirl]

Are you using the Desktop program for 2022?   

On Feb 20, 2024 an employee posted this……..
According to our tech support team, this is not a product defect. TurboTax Desktop for prior years does not support E-file for amendments like TurboTax Online does. Apparently, the signature date is the trigger for rejecting an e-file attempt.
https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/after-you-file/discussion/tt-desktop-won-t-let-me-e-file-2022-amen...

[untuit]

Yes this is desktop for 2022. I think it is supposed to support efile if the original was efiled. And, the first time around when I did not actually submit the revision, after the save and print page, clicked Done, and it then offered to efile. But this time around it does not.

[VolvoGirl · Accepted solution]

You can only efile a current year amended return from the Desktop program.  Even if you tried the first time around it would have rejected.  

[untuit]

ok, thanks for that info.

[untuit]

Also, do I need to refile for state as well? There is no balance due for state. The only item changed on the amended return was the listing of an excess contribution to a roth ira. I think it may be irrelevent for the state (CA).