Can I amend a discharged chapter 7 bankruptcy?

If you had outstanding taxes when you filed bankruptcy and the taxes weren't discharged, then they won't be discharged in a new bankruptcy. You need to contact the IRS and work out installment payments.

If the debts were in existence when you previously applied for bankruptcy, you can ask the court to reopen the case so that you can include the debts. However, taxes are not normally dischargeable in chapter 7 cases.

Confusing question. Did you mean to ask whether you can amend your filed bankruptcy petition? As long as the case is open you can amend any of the schedules by filing and serving upon Trustee and US Trustee an Amendment Cover page and the amended schedules. If the underlying question is whether the past due income taxes are dischargeable the answer depends on some additional undisclosed facts. Discuss this with your bankruptcy attorney. If you don't have one, get a consultation as soon as possible. When there are past due income taxes involved, the actual date of when a debtor files their bankruptcy case under some circumstances CAN make a difference. A tax transcript, which can be obtained for each and every year the income taxes are owed, provides some key facts: date when the filed return was received by the tax authority, date when tax was assessed (including any additional taxes), whether liens have been placed against your property.

Your questions are not making a lot of sense to me. Do you have reason to file amended tax returns? If yes, then you should do that. The bankruptcy case has no bearing on what your tax returns show you owe. The only questions would be as far as timing goes, when the tax returns were filed and when the bankruptcy case was filed. Most income taxes are NOT dischargeable in bankruptcy. Since you did not include any dates or years it is impossible to know whether you are yet entitled to file another bankruptcy case and receive a discharge or, whether the taxes you are asking about would be dischargeable in the first place. You should probably take all your paperwork and schedule an initial consultation with either a bankruptcy lawyer or a tax specialist in order to get reliable information and answers.

It would sort of help to know what years the taxes are for, what kinds of taxes you owe, and in what year you filed bankruptcy. Without any information about your situation, I would have to play EINEY MEENEY MINEY MO to give you even a bad answer.

Only debts owed at the time of filing are included in a bankruptcy. Debts incurred afterward cannot be included. You would either need to pay the debts or file another bankruptcy, but I am assuming you are within a short time of your bankruptcy. That would likely mean you could not obtain a discharge of your debts, but the tax debts would be paid in full. Further, even if a 7 was available to you, the tax debts would not likely be dischargeable.