re: Is there a more ridiculous exercise in America than filing taxes?

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Or being told to file the return as is and then have to go back and file an amended return.

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I know someone (not a client) that does this every year. They file in January, then every mid-September they get a small K-1 from a 1 percent interest in a family business, and they just file an amended return and if they owe anything, just pay that with interest.