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Can I file 1040 as an amended tax form after I file a 1040A?

For fed taxes:

I am years late filing and paying my taxes, and under a deadline now. Can I still file 1040 as an amended tax form later, after I file a

1040A now in order to meet the deadline they have given me?

Is my current deliquency a bar to getting a reduction of interest and penalties, by filing an amended tax form, after filing one now with no deductions in time for an individual deadline given to me on the phone by an officer of the IRS?

I had little income and don't owe that much tax, and may not benefit much by filing an amended 1040A, but still, have I lost that chance by being so late.

I think the main thing I would gain is the form 1116 foreign tax credit, but that would reduce my taxes iirc on a dollar per dollar basis (almost?) as well as interest and penalties. So it might be worth it.

Given my past behaviour and my ongoing state of depression, I'll probably never get around to filing amended returns, and I'll consider any extra money paid to be a) a contribution to America, b) my punishment for being tardy. But I should still know if I can or not.

I may really need the money, I don't know. Just as I've been negligent with taxes, I've been negligent with everything else and don't even know how much money I have to live on.

Thanks a lot.

Reply to
Bobby
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"2. Taxpayers can use Form 1040X to correct previously filed Forms 1040,

1040A or 1040EZ. The 1040X can also be used to correct a return filed electronically."

I don't have answers to your other questions right now, but you could start doing some additional research at:

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8657,00.html which also has links to 1040X instructions.

-Mark Bole

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Mark Bole

No. Amended returns belong on form 1040X.

Interest: Yes. There is no provision for a reduction. Penalties: Depends. Simple procrastination is not a valid reason.

Check on this, but I don't believe you're eligble for form 1040A if you need to include an 1116.

Insufficient information.

Reply to
D. Stussy

I think what you meant to ask is whether you can include things on an amended 1040A (always on Form 1040X) that wouldn't have been available on Form 1040A. Yes, you can.

For future reference, why mess around with anything other than the 1040? All you do is waste time figuring out whether your situation fits the 1040A. Always use a 1040 and just skip the lines/parts that have nothing to do with your situation.

Phil Marti Clarksburg, MD

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Phil Marti

Some computer programs print out form 1040EZ, 1040A, or 1040 automatically depending on the return. There is often a setting to force the use of 1040.

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removeps-groups

If you are too disfunctional to deal with this matter, I'd suggest you engage a professional to clean up the mess. When filing, If any of your returns are filed 3 years after the due date of your original return, you wlll lose any refund to which you may be due. If your original return is incomplete, and an amended return is filed later, that should be O.K but why delay??? You're only complicating what may be a very simple matter. Rather than procrastinate, get professional help and stop the agony. In the long run, it will likely be much cheaper than what you have to pay and the suffering with which you appear to afflicted. If you need more time, call the # at the top of the letter IRS sent you and ask for it.

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"Jack"-:)

I do the same thing. The IRS must love us!

(The reason they have a 1040A and 1040EZ is to skip all those blank lines.)

Reply to
D. Stussy

Actually it has as much to do with Congressional pressure as anything else.

I'm old enough to remember when the 1040A was an IBM punch card. I have no smoking gun tapes, but I suspect that as Congress continued complifying the law over the years, more and more people were unable to use the 1040A. I do know that Congress started telling IRS to modify the 1040A so that certain people could use it, e.g., when SS benefits became potentially taxable. Last time I looked it was up to two pages and two or three attachments.

A few years from now we'll probably have the 1040-EZ (We really mean it this time).

Phil Marti Clarksburg, MD

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Phil Marti

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