What do I do if I receive my tax return before I am able to amend my taxes? I need to fix a mistake but the Form 1040X will not be ready for another month.

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@ cjtodd98  wrote:
What do I do if I receive my tax return before I am able to amend my taxes? I need to fix a mistake but the Form 1040X will not be ready for another month.
For some reason my one W2 was added twice. Making it seem like I earned twice as much as I did for 2020. I was on the phone for an hour trying to fix this and was told to "amend" my tax return. I tried to do that and now it says Form 1040X is not ready for processing. It will be available after I am predicted to get my tax return. Help?

Side note: My tax return after the correction is suppose to be more than the tax return with the mistake.

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TIP:  Although many people do so, calling your tax refund a "tax return" can be confusing.  The tax return is the data you submitted.  The repayment to you of your overpaid taxes is a tax refund.

It's good if you receive the Federal refund before you can amend, and in fact, you should wait until you do receive it.   We frequently tell users in this forum not to amend their return until after they receive their Federal refunds.

You should not amend a tax return until the original tax return is fully processed and after you receive the Federal refund that was on the original return.   You never know if the IRS might change something on the original return, which could possibly make you have to amend an amended return, which can be a real headache.    And it can take the IRS weeks or months to process an amended return.

The amended return may show you are due additional refund, or it can show that you have to pay back part of the originally-received refund, or in some cases it may show no change.

NOTE:  If you amend the Federal return, you will likely also have to amend the state return (if applicable).