: Tax return accepted, amended return rejected My original tax return was efiled and accepted by both US and state. I originally forgot to include daycare expenses for my daughter which would have provided an additional several

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Answer to question as amended by OP's comment.

Since you did not sign the amended return paperwork, there
is no amended return that has been submitted to the IRS
(even if IRS kept a copy of the submitted paperwork in its
files).

At this point, you have several options.

You can just forget the whole thing. Your accepted return is
your tax return for 2011. But see below for what acceptance means.
You can submit a properly signed amended return together
with the 1098-T. If there are other changes
in your amended return, the IRS will typically accept the
ones that are properly validated and reject the rest. In this
case, you will get a letter telling you what changes the IRS has
made to your submitted (amended) return, and what to do
if you disagree with the changes. If additional tax, interest,
or penalties are due, the IRS will tell you to how to pay the
amount due.
Note that in the normal scheme of things, once a tax return
(whether original or amended) showing a refund is due
is keyed into the IRS computers, you might get the refund within
a few weeks of submission if no arithmetic errors are found in
the numbers you submitted. The IRS will take a closer look at your
return somewhat later, and the letter
saying that upon closer examination, some changes have been
made to your return, might come much later. When a
tax return is accepted, it merely means
that the return has been found to have no
obvious numerical errors. The IRS has three years
from the due date of the original return (including extensions
of time to file, if requested) to examine the return
in detail. If the return is amended, a new three-year
clock starts from the date of filing the amended return.

As a final comment, if you amend your Federal return,
you might need to amend your State income tax return also,
so don't forget that part. If you submitted your
amended return to the State when you sent in your
unsigned Federal amended return, and the State amended return
has been accepted already, then if you
now decide to not amend your Federal return after all,
you will need to file yet another amended State return
saying put everything back the way it was.