Bill Steiner Return Quotations

In order to receive a refund, your tax return must be filed within three years of its due date. And if you file a return, and later realize you made an error on the return (and are owed money), the deadline for claiming any refund due is three years after the return was filed, or two years after the tax was paid, whichever expires later.

Taxpayers who don't file their required tax returns and fail to respond to IRS requests for a return may be considered for a variety of enforcement actions,

The ultimate responsible party for what's on that tax return is you. You're signing it, you're responsible for all the information on there.

You certainly don't want to become a pen pal of the IRS. That's what having errors on your tax return can do.