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April 15, 2025
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Rejected return

  • April 15, 2025
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I fie taxes for my mother in law who is 94.  I filed her 2022 taxes and they were accepted.

Last year (2023) I filed them and they were rejected.  Unfortunately I use her phone and email on the form and so did not see wither the rejection or code.   I did not realize this til I was in the process of preparing this year's taxes.

She owes nothing and would receive back less that $100 so I was not concerned and thought I could file them after the 2024 taxes.

I did his years taxes for her and as last year. TurboTax indicated no errors.  

I used my phone number this year as her contact and got a rejection notice again.  Since I did not have access to her email I went on the program and selected the last item on the pull down menu which is filing status.

I hit "fix my return" and it indicated I had to correct her last year AGI.  As it indicated in the directions since there was no last year return I entered 0.

When that popped up I changed it to 0.00 and it indicated I should resubmit.  Now I'm waiting to see if it net through.

Is there anything else I can do?

If rejected I will file for an extension and submit late I guess.

Thanks

 

    2 replies

    April 15, 2025

    Since she didn't file a tax return in 2023, you shouldn't use the AGI from 2023.  Try entering 0 instead. 

     

    How do I find last year's AGI?

    April 15, 2025

    I did put 0 (and refiled with 0.00)  in and that did not work.  Thanks anyhow.

    HollyP
    Employee
    April 16, 2025

    Thanks for reporting back. At this point it's best to file and extension, if there's any tax owed. Then file the return by mail. 

     

    How do I file an IRS tax extension?

    How do I fix e-file reject IND-031-04 or IND-032-04?

     

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