My dad is working on an amended return for 2012 because he understated the cost basis for some stock sales and has an overstated capital gain. He is using a report function in Quicken. When he made the changes, he expected to see a change just related to the capital gains and AGI by the same amount, but most of the other line items on the 1040 changed by small and seemingly random amounts. Does anyone know why?
Please be more specific. Which line items on the 1040 changed? Last time I looked there are sixty or seventy of them. Even an example of just one line that changed would be something we could actually try to answer.
You also need to provide an approximate value for AGI and the filing status, so that the effect of various AGI phase-outs can be estimated.
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