Instrucons for 2019 Form M2X
Who Should File M2X?
This form should be led by duciaries to correct—or amend—an original 2019 Minnesota duciary return.
Federal return adjustments. If the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) changes or audits your federal return or you amend your federal return and
it aects your Minnesota return or distributions to beneciaries, you must le an amended Minnesota return with 180 days. If you are ling
Form M2X based on an IRS adjustment, check the box at the top of the form and attach a copy of your amended federal return or correction
notice you received from the IRS to Form M2X.
If the changes do not aect your Minnesota return or Schedules K-1, you have 180 days to send a letter of explanation and a copy of your
amended federal return or the correction notice to: Minnesota Fiduciary Tax, Mail Station 5140, 600 N. Robert St., St. Paul, MN 55146-5140.
If you fail to report as required, a 10 percent penalty will be assessed on any additional tax. See line 24 instructions.
Claim for refund. Use Form M2X to make a claim for refund and report changes to your Minnesota liability. If you make a claim for a refund
and we do not act on it within six months of the date led, you may bring an action in the district court or the tax court.
When to File
File Form M2X only after you have led your original return. You may le Form M2X within 3½ years after the return was due or within one
year from the date of an order assessing tax, whichever is later. If you led your original return under an extension by the extended due date,
you have up to 3½ years from the extended due date to le the amended return.
Filing Reminders
• The amended return must be signed by the duciary or authorized ocer of the organization receiving, controlling or managing the
income of the estate or trust. The person must also include his or her ID number.
• If someone other than the duciary prepared the return, the preparer must also sign.
• Round amounts to the nearest dollar. Drop amounts less than 50 cents and increase amounts 50 cents or more to the next higher dollar.
• Forms and information are available on our website at www.revenue.state.mn.us.
If you need help completing your amended return, call 651-556-3075. We’ll provide information in other formats upon request.
Explanaon
On page 4 of Form M2X, include a detailed explanation of why the original return was incorrect. Providing this information will help us verify
the amended amounts.
Use of Informaon
All information provided on this form is private, except for your Minnesota tax ID number, which is public. Private information cannot be
given to others except as provided by state law.
The identity and income information of the beneciaries are required under state law so the department can determine the beneciaries’ correct
Minnesota taxable income and verify if the beneciaries have led returns and paid the tax. The Social Security numbers of the beneciaries
are required to be reported on Schedule KF under M.S. 289A.12, subd. 13.
Line Instrucons
Columns A, B, C
• Column A: Enter the amounts shown on your original return or as later adjusted by an amended return or audit report.
• Column B: Enter the dollar amount of each change as an increase or decrease for each line you are changing. Show all decreases in paren-
theses. On the back of Form M2X, explain the changes in detail. If the changes involve items requiring supporting information, attach to
Form M2X the appropriate schedule, statement or form to verify the corrected amount.
• Column C: Enter the corrected amounts after the increases or decreases. If there are no changes, enter the amount from column A.
Lines 18b and 18c
If you received a credit certicate from the Minnesota Rural Finance Authority for selling or leasing agricultural assets to a beginning farmer,
enter the certicate number in the space provided and credit amount on line 18b.
If you have multiple credits, enter the certicate number your duciary received directly from the Rural Finance Authority within the certicate
number box. If you have multiple credits and received all credits from other pass-through entities, enter the certicate number relating to the
largest credit amount within the certicate number box. Subtotal all credit amounts on Line 18b.
If you have unused credits from prior years you can use this year, enter the unused credit amount on line 18c and the certicate number associ-
ated to that credit amount in the space provided.
Line 19
Enter the total of the following tax amounts, whether or not paid.
1. For the original 2019 M2 return, the amount from line 16.
2. For all previously led 2019 M2X Returns, the amount from line 23.
3. Additional tax due as the result of an audit or notice of change.
Do not include any amounts that were paid for penalty, interest or underpayment of estimated tax.
For addional informaon, see the 2019 Form M2 instrucons
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