Efile corrected return if original not prepared

[PATAX]

Can we e-file a corrected return if we did not prepare the original return? I thought that we could now do this but I'm not sure.. I tried to do a search on this forum for it but like Iron Man said before the search function isn't the greatest in the world... Client referred a relative to me who is going to call and I don't want to do it if it is going to be an issue and I don't want to have it to be mailed since it may not be opened for a while... and I try to avoid headaches and I don't need the work ... Thank you in advance for any help...

[IRonMaN]

Based on memory (which really sucks when it comes to posts here), I thought you could now do that.

[IRonMaN · Accepted solution]

I found it under the alerts:

How do I amend a 1040 in ProSeries? - Intuit Accountants Community

[TaxGuyBill]

Yes, you supposedly can do it for 2020 returns (but not 2019).

From what I've heard others say, it can be tricky to figure out how though.  This might help:

https://proconnect.intuit.com/community/amend-tax-return/help/how-do-i-amend-an-individual-return-us...

[TaxGuyBill]

You beat me by 20 seconds.

[PATAX]

Thanks Iron Man, I thought I heard the same thing too, but I'm not sure if anyone actually was able to efile  it without a problem or not.... ..

[PATAX]

Thanks tax guy Bill, that is what I thought I heard also

[Camp1040]

Yes according to the "how to amend a return" section on this forum.

I tried it back in August, pretty soon after it was announced that we could, I  checked all the correct boxes, error check went through with flying colors, the return was rejected a day or so  later. I was amending MFS to MFJ which was allowed according to the instructions but that was the reason for the rejection.

I was prepared to paper file until I notice the announcement that we could efile amend returns we did not prepare. So off in the mail it went

[IRonMaN]

Bill - I am 200 miles farther north than you which means the air is thinner so my posts can travel faster through the air than yours.

[PATAX]

Thanks Camp1040... it sounds like it did not work out too well for you and that is what I thought .. That is why I never prepare returns too quickly after those returns are available to be efiled especially early in the tax season... Sometimes better to wait a little bit to let the bugs get out...

[TaxGuyBill]

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@Camp1040 wrote:

I was amending MFS to MFJ

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Changing filing status is one of the IRS restrictions that can NOT be efiled.  So that isn't the fault of ProSeries.

[TaxGuyBill]

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@IRonMaN wrote:

Bill - I am 200 miles farther north than you which means the air is thinner so my posts can travel faster through the air than yours.

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I would have thought that the colder air would have slowed it down.

[IRonMaN]

It speeds it up - less turbulence in cold air.

[Camp1040]

I must have misread that instruction!

[PATAX]

Don't worry about it... With all the crap that we've had to put up with this year and the other years, my thick pop bottles are seeing double.....🤓