UH-OH! Advice needed soon ... DD needs to amend taxes

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<p>DD had a total of five jobs (working three at one time) during 2010. She graduated in May 2010 and will start graduate school next month. She came over to our house today to get her tax records and fill out the FAFSA so she can apply for financial aid. She filed the 1040EZ earlier this year but we have just realized that one of her W2s was not included in the return. We tried calling H&R Block but there was no answer and we tried the IRS, but grew tired of waiting on the phone greater than 30 minutes. Can anyone here please tell me the easiest way of amending her taxes? She needs to complete the FAFSA right away and I’m wondering how long it will take to have her information amended so she can complete it correctly. Any assistance would be appreciated!</p>

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<p>If you go to the IRS website, you can download forms& instructions. The form you want is the 1040-X</p>

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<p>Thanks so much!</p>

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<p>In my experience, the IRS is very slow to process anything unusual. By unusual, I mean anything other than filing on time. I usually get extensions (paying approximately what I own plus a safety margin on time, of course). Last year I filed on time. All kinds of error forms demanding more money kept arriving. I called the IRS and got a woman who figured out that the problem was that my tax returns for the previous TWO YEARS, filed 4-6 months late but still well before my on-time current return, had not been processed. She was able to process them on the spot, and the errors disappeared. Apparently, arriving returns are scanned into the system but may not be processed for ages.</p>

<p>If your D needs her corrected return processed, she might call the IRS after a couple of weeks, maybe early in the morning before they get busy, and ask about it. The agent might be able to get it processed right away.</p>

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<p>^^^ “owe,” not “own,” of course. But sometimes it seems like I’m sending them everything I own.</p>

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<p>fill in the 1040-x; send it to IRS. use the info for fafsa; no need for IRS to “process” the return for fafsa purposes</p>

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When completing the FAFSA today, there was a link that took her to the IRS page and automatically filled in some of the areas with results from her tax return. When she tried to make the appropriate changes by including numbers from the amended return, it would not let her. She submitted the FAFSA with the original numbers from the first tax return and she submitted an amended return.</p>