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e-filing an amended Form 1040 1040-X rejected by IRS

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
August 10, 2021
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Yesterday I tried to efile an amended federal return Form 1040-X and it was rejected by IRS with the following error: "If Form 1040, AmendedReturnInd is checked, then Form 1040-X must be present in the return". The data file did include a Form 1040-X.

Taxpayer had prepared her own original return which was filed electronically with IRS, but requested that i amend it. I followed all the instructions in the ProSeries instructions "How do I amend a 1040 in Proseries?", but the return still rejected.

Please provide guidance as to a fix.

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Terry53029

Intuit Community Champion

ProSeries can only efile an amended return not efiled by you for 2020. If you are amending a return other than 2020 when someone else filed the original, then you have to mail in

Just-Lisa-Now-

Intuit Community Champion

they sent a yellow banner announcement out last week that we could now efile amendments that we did not file the original. I saw people in the FB ProSeries group successfully do it, I havent had one to test it with though. Ohhh, but yes, its only for 2020.....if this original post is about 2019, theyre out of luck.

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dkh

Level 15

Let's walk thru the steps you took to amend the return... 1) you entered the return the same as the taxpayer had 2) You went into Form 1040X and checked the 2020 Box so the original information populated the form 3) you made the changes required This should have created the 1040X required for efiling.

ProSeries just made available the ability to amend a return that was not originally prepared by you - have you updated the program recently?

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pcrubingercpaAuthor

Level 3

All of these steps were followed precisely, and my software was updated.

dkh

Level 15

hmmmm...... My next step would be to update again or do the Tools-Repair Updates, run review to verify no errors exists, then efile again

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Nayeli

Level 2

Having the same issue. where you able to resolve it?

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ASPCPA

Level 2

I keep getting rejects when I try to e-file a 2020 amended return that the taxpayer e-filed on another tax platform.. It does not recognize the 1040 X present in the e-file package. I have been through at least three pro series tech assistance sessions to no avail. When I try to e-file from within the tax return, it states the federal amended return is not ready because the federal return itself has not been completed. I would appreciate any help.

Just-Lisa-Now-

Intuit Community Champion

Something goofy happens when an EFiled 1040X return rejects, (mine was for a stupid EIN on a W2)

I tried over and over again to get it to resubmit. Short of starting over from scratch and doing the whole thing over again, I finally gave up. It just doesnt recognize it as an amended return anymore, its not you, its a programming problem that just hasnt been addressed.

Just have the client mail it in. Efiled 1040Xs arent processed any quicker than mailed in ones, youre only saving mail processing time. Save yourself some aggravation and drop it in the mail.

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Skylane

Intuit Community Champion

If at first (or 2nd) you don't succeed.......................... PAPERFILE.... it ain't worth the aggravation

If at first you don’t succeed…..find a workaround

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