Dear Action Line: Ye cats!! I found that I didn't include my United Way contribution on my federal 1040, and this is the reason I owe taxes! How do I correct this? -- O.P., Tulsa. Amending returns: ...

Every year I must amend several clients’ returns that were previously filed for various reasons. This year as the Oct. 16 extension deadline for individual tax filing approaches, I am faced with a new ...

How could you have missed that when you did your final filing review and hit "send" or dropped your return in the mail? What can you do about it now? As it turns out, plenty. The complexity of the tax ...

One key detail was left out of the answer about filing a 1040X form if you forgot to take the Telephone Tax Rebate: You need to make sure you're using the new Form 1040X, which was updated in February ...

What do I do if I've already mailed my federal tax return and discovered I failed to transfer my deduction for mortgage interest paid from line 10 of my Schedule A worksheet to my final Schedule A ...

When it comes time to file your taxes, you pretty much have two roads you can go down. If you don't want to go through the hassle of doing your taxes yourself and don't mind dishing out extra cash, ...