1040X time

[mondhasen]

Seems I screwed up my taxes, and my youngest's, by claiming him as a dependent when I should not have. I will have to pay more but he'll get a little back from this. PitA! I have two 1040X submittals and two RI1040X's on top of these

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[c_eagle]

rarrrgh.... sorry to hear about the backtracking.... I hope it will go smoothly from here onward this year... Last I heard they can be dependents thru age 26 if in college ... but the laws may have changed since I was back in them age groopz...

[mondhasen]

He's no longer in college, and I ass-umed he was my dependent until 21... considering what it costs to maintain him ;o)

These are the nuances of the law one slowly forgets when relying solely on a program for taxes. And it was HR Block, a program I paid for, not a webfront mystery site.

Bah!

[c_eagle]

Bah indeedy! You said it well... people forget and develop a disconnect to the ACTUAL forms when they use these "interview questionnaire style" programs... I wish there was one that let you SEE the forms are it guided you along filling them out... but I haven't seen one yet....

[mondhasen]

The program I use actually let's you see the form, if you wish, and if you ask it to guide you it asks more questions. I want it to ask those questions outright, and if I catch a penalty on top of the added 'missed' original payment I may ask HR Block for an explanation.

I liked the disconnect when I got money back...

[sabotlours]

I can definitely feel your pain having dealt with the IRS in the past. On more than one occasion I have caught them with contradictory or vague statements in their instructions. Like I posted a few weeks back, I'm a smart guy who does a lot of math on a daily basis. If even I can't make heads or tails out of this shit, how is the average Joe supposed to navigate the numerical minefield?!?

[mondhasen]

Awful minefield! The instructions for the State are even less clear. My only bit of luck is thay I can run the taxes back through the program 'correctly' and compare the results I get to what I try to do manually on their Chinese columned menu. Even that baffled me because I didn't understand their instuctions and had an $18 dollar difference due to adding in a penalty for under-withholding originally.