Walter Rego
Member
I was going to take advantage of the rule allowing payment of the 2019 Federal Income Tax due to be deferred until July 15th.
I used TurboTax software and submitted my return several weeks ago, and set it up to pay the amount due on April 10th with an electronic debit from my checking account.
I went to the Turbotax website today to see what the process was to amend my return and change the payment date to July 10th. Guess what ? If the return was already accepted by the IRS, which it usually is within about 48 hours of electronic filing, the only way to change the payment date is to call the IRS. Yeah, right. I'd probably be on hold way past July 15th.
I doubt that TurboTax will be willing and/or able to do a software update to allow millions of their users to amend their Federal returns so I guess I will be forking over a bunch of money to Uncle Sam prior to April 15th as originally planned.
Just a head's up for any TurboTax, and probably other online tax software users that if you have already filed it is going to be quite an ordeal to try and change it.
I used TurboTax software and submitted my return several weeks ago, and set it up to pay the amount due on April 10th with an electronic debit from my checking account.
I went to the Turbotax website today to see what the process was to amend my return and change the payment date to July 10th. Guess what ? If the return was already accepted by the IRS, which it usually is within about 48 hours of electronic filing, the only way to change the payment date is to call the IRS. Yeah, right. I'd probably be on hold way past July 15th.
I doubt that TurboTax will be willing and/or able to do a software update to allow millions of their users to amend their Federal returns so I guess I will be forking over a bunch of money to Uncle Sam prior to April 15th as originally planned.
Just a head's up for any TurboTax, and probably other online tax software users that if you have already filed it is going to be quite an ordeal to try and change it.