Amending a return, stuck at "Correct your payment date"

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
March 26, 2023
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I owe some more money. Happy to pay it, but the system won't accept dates in 2022 or 2023, so I'm stuck in an endless loop of trying to 'fix' my return. I talked to TT Live, but they couldn't figure it out and suggested I print and file by mail. I really don't want to go through that, and I can't figure out why TT wouldn't be able to handle this very common situation

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Best answer by VolvoGirl

Sorry for an amended return you have to mail a check with the 1040X. You can't debit your bank account. Or pay directly on the IRS.

You can pay the IRS directly at

https://www.irs.gov/payments

admdb26

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Try shutting down your computer, when you turn it back on the problem may be fixed.

HeatherPLO

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taxpayer252342Author

Level 2

Thank you for the detailed reply! I tried all the steps you outlined, but am unfortunately still getting the same circular error. It's between the following screens in the 2021 refile section:

Your completecheck to-do list

Correct Your Payment Date

Direct Debit Date

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I've tried dates in 2021, 2022 and 2023, without success. As far as I'm concerned they could take the money out any time.

VolvoGirlAnswer

Level 15

Sorry for an amended return you have to mail a check with the 1040X. You can't debit your bank account. Or pay directly on the IRS.

You can pay the IRS directly at

https://www.irs.gov/payments

j zhou

Level 2

I'm having the same issue, have you resolve it?

taxpayer252342Author

Level 2

Unfortunately not. I'm a little frustrated that everyone at TT has suggested that it's possible, but none could give me accurate instructions about how. Eventually I found a number of other people reporting this bug stretching back more than a year, none resolved. Here's a link to the search that turned them up:

https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-search?advanced=false&allow_punctuation=false&filter=location&location=category%3Aen-us&q=Correct+your+payment+date&uid=lftn12j4

Here are some specific issues:

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/after-you-file/discussion/re-amended-return-keeps-asking-for-a-payment-date-in-the-prior-year/01/2872443#M690203
https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/after-you-file/discussion/amended-return-keeps-asking-for-a-payment-date-in-the-prior-year/00/2872242
https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/after-you-file/discussion/i-m-amending-my-2019-federal-return-i-owe-124-and-turbo-is-asking-me-to-correct-your-payment-date-i/00/2343826#M597444
https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/after-you-file/discussion/i-m-at-almost-the-last-stage-of-submitting-an-amended-return-but-turbotax-keeps-telling-me-i-need-to/00/2322250

I just gave up and mailed my check to the IRS. The one helpful thing I can share: Submitting the paperwork electronically is possible, but paying is not. So if you're careful with your button selection (I don't remember details, sorry) you're only having to print and mail one page, plus the check. Still annoying, especially since I strongly recommend you send certified mail (which requires a trip to the post office) because I hear the IRS is backlogged and it will be good to prove to them that the check is in their inbox if they ever reach out to you.