Hunting the Amended Return

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Where’s my amended return? IRS online self-assistance applications

 

What to tell clients when they ask.

By CPA Trendlines Research

Long, long ago, humans began to use tools. Technology began with the sharpened stick and the stone hammer and soon grew into the wheel, the arch, the printing press, electricity, interplanetary transportation, finally reaching a lofty pinnacle known as the “Where’s My Amended Return” tool at the IRS.

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Today, with a few clicks of a mouse and a few keystrokes of information, a taxpayer can discover virtually nothing about the fate of an amended return. And it takes only a few minutes!