How can I get a copy of a previous 'signed' tax return? As I completed my taxes online, the signed portion of the return is blank, but I am needing to show it signed.

[VolvoGirl]

If you print it out you need to sign it now in ink.   It doesn't have your electronic signature.   Just sign it.

[rjs]

We often see mortgage lenders or colleges asking for a signed copy of a tax return. When a tax return is e-filed it is transmitted electronically to the IRS. There is no paper copy, so there is no ink signature. A digital code is transmitted electronically instead of a written signature. No signature appears on the image of the tax form.

The IRS has been doing it this way for 20 years, and most tax returns are now e-filed, so it's well past time for the lenders and colleges to update their requirements for a copy of the tax return to take account of how tax returns are actually filed today.

Rather than trying to reason with them, probably the easiest way to satisfy them is to do what VolvoGirl said. Print a copy of your tax return, sign the printed copy with the date that you actually filed it, and give them the signed copy.