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Error: "Duplicate Return" When Checking E-filing Status
Updated: 11/17/2007
Article ID: 2009
If your electronically filed return is rejected because of a duplicate return error, we suggest getting your status through the product within the next 24 hours. See Check the Status of Your E-filed Return .
How to resolve this error
TurboTax Desktop
- Click here to check the status of your return over the Web.
- If your return shows a status of In Process or Sent to Taxing authority, please check your status in 24 to 48 hours. Do not complete the rest of these steps until your return is accepted.
- If your return shows a status of Accepted, please write down the DCN number and follow the steps below.
- Open TurboTax and then open your tax return.
- From the Forms menu, select Open a Form, scroll down and highlight Electronic Filing Instructions,and then select Open.
- Once the Electronic Filing Instructions are open, select the Print Button at the top of the screen, and then select Print.
- From the forms menu select Open a Form, scroll down and highlight Form 8453-OL, and then select Open.
- Once the Form 8453-OL is open, select the Print Button at the top of the screen, and then select Print.
- At the top of the printed Form 8453-OL, write in the Declaration Control Number from step 3 and complete the rest of this form.
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If the Electronic Filing Instructions indicate that Form 8453-OL is not required to be mailed, you are finished. If you are required to mail; sign, data and mail the form in accordance with the tax return filing instructions
TurboTax Online
- Click here to check the status of your return over the Web.
- If your return shows a status of In Process or Sent to Taxing authority, please check your status again in 24 to 48 hours. Do not complete the rest of these steps until your return is accepted.
- If your return shows a status of Accepted, please write down the DCN number and keep with your printed copy of the tax return.
- Go to the IRS to download a copy of Form 8453-OL, and then select the print icon to print a copy.
- In TurboTax, if you chose not to sign your return electronically, complete Form 8453-OL (don't forget to enter the DCN at the top of the form), sign and then mail it to the IRS in accordance with the tax return filing instructions.
