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New Member
posted Jun 7, 2019 4:48:14 PM

How do I find my 2017 tax return?

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Intuit Alumni
Jun 7, 2019 4:48:15 PM

Please follow the instructions below for more details on how to access your (2017) prior return.  

If you have already filed your 2018 tax return using the Free Edition without PLUS, then you need to upgrade to PLUS and pay first to access your prior year return. Please follow the instructions below: 

  1. Login to TurboTax.com  

  2. On the Tax Home screen click "show" to see all your tax returns & documents.  

  3. Under 2018 click on "Add a State." (We are not actually adding a state, but need to get back to the page to upgrade to PLUS.) 

  4. Click "upgrade" on from the left menu. (If it is greyed out, you already upgraded and can close out of there.) 

  5. Now, click on "Tax Tools" from the left menu. 

  6. Click "Print Center." 

  7. Select "Print This year's Return." (Not Prior year's return or you will get knocked out of the return.) 

  8. Click "Pay Now" to pay for PLUS to access the prior year's return. 

If you have not already filed your 2018 tax return, please click on the link below for more instructions.  

This one will help you upgrade if you haven't started your 2018 return yet. https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/3402466 

This one will help if you started your return but haven't filed it yet. https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/3402464


New Member
Jul 1, 2019 8:20:34 AM

How do I get my 2017 tax return?

New Member
Aug 19, 2019 5:53:41 AM

How can I find my 2017 tax return? I want to print it out.

Thanks

ChinChin Paygar

Level 15
Aug 19, 2019 6:47:42 AM

@ChinChinP 

You have to sign onto your 2017 online account using the exact same user ID you used to create the 2017 online account.

Close all TurboTax windows on your web browser (including this one).  Copy and paste the account recovery website link onto a new web browser window and run the tool.

Use this TurboTax account recovery website to get a list of all the user ID's for an email address.  Run the tool against any email addresses you may have used - https://myturbotax.intuit.com/account-recovery

If none of the user ID's received will access your 2017 account, then use the option shown in blue on the account recovery website, "Try something else"

If you used the desktop CD/Download editions installed on your computer, the only copy of your tax data file and any PDF's will be on the computer where the return was created.  TurboTax does not store online any returns completed using the desktop editions.

To access your prior year tax returns sign onto the TurboTax website with the userID you used to create the account - https://myturbotax.intuit.com/

 

Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and on the section Your tax returns & documents click on Show.  Click on the Year and Click on Download/print return (PDF)

New Member
Aug 24, 2019 8:21:03 AM

need a copy of my 2017 taxes

Level 15
Aug 24, 2019 8:31:31 AM

@tmlk2000 

Access to prior year returns

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/3355524-when-does-access-to-my-prior-year-turbotax-online-returns-expire

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/3404575-how-do-i-access-my-prior-year-2017-return

You can get a free transcript from the IRS:   

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript

How do I get a copy of a return I filed using online TurboTax?

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1900748

How do I get a copy of a return I prepared using desktop TurboTax?

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1900639

 

 

Note:  Every year, before mid-October, print a copy of your current year tax return and save it as a tax file and pdf, too.  That way you will have it when you need it for school, a loan, next year’s tax return, etc. without going through a lot of aggravation (and expense)  to get it.

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1899645-how-do-i-save-my-2018-turbotax-online-return-as-a-tax-data-file

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1912544-how-do-i-save-my-2018-turbotax-online-return-as-a-pdf

New Member
Sep 12, 2019 1:01:53 PM

I am trying yo retrieve a copy of my 2017 tax return

Level 15
Sep 12, 2019 1:09:42 PM

@marcushaynes60 

Use the same account and user ID to find that 2017 return that you used when you prepared it. 

 

Many people have multiple TT accounts and forget how to access them.  Log out of the account you are in now.

 

Account recovery

https://myturbotax.intuit.com/account-recovery/

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1901535-forgot-your-turbotax-online-user-id-or-password

Or did you use the desktop version of TurboTax?  If so, the files are on your own hard drive or any backup device you used like a flash drive.

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1901486-how-many-turbotax-accounts-do-i-have

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1901535

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1901659-find-your-tax-data-file-in-mac

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1900721-find-your-tax-data-file-tax-file-in-windows

 

 

  And scroll up in this thread and read the answer directly above your  own post.

 

 

New Member
Sep 21, 2019 12:20:08 PM

I need to print a copy of my 2017 and 2018 tax returns. Can you help me with that?

Level 15
Sep 21, 2019 12:31:39 PM

@wesley2406 All the information on how to print tax returns has already been posted on this thread.  Did you not read all the prior messages before you posted on this thread?

New Member
Feb 2, 2020 3:18:53 PM

Not sure if I have tax liabilities … When it tells me to enter the amount for a 2018 State Tax the box already has 111. entered … does that mean that's how much my tax liability is already?

New Member
Sep 23, 2020 6:08:01 PM

how do I find my 2017 tax return

Level 15
Sep 23, 2020 6:14:10 PM


@navy wrote:

how do I find my 2017 tax return


To access your current or prior year online tax returns sign onto the TurboTax website with the userID you used to create the account - https://myturbotax.intuit.com/

Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and on the section Your tax returns & documents click on Show.  Click on the Year and Click on Download/print return (PDF)

You can also get free transcripts of your federal return from the IRS - http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/Get-Transcript

For a fee of $50 you can get a complete federal tax return from the IRS by completing Form 4506 - http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4506.pdf

New Member
Sep 23, 2020 6:15:39 PM

im trying to find a copy of my 2017 tax return

Level 15
Sep 23, 2020 6:19:22 PM


@navy wrote:

im trying to find a copy of my 2017 tax return


To access your current or prior year online tax returns sign onto the TurboTax website with the userID you used to create the account - https://myturbotax.intuit.com/

Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and on the section Your tax returns & documents click on Show.  Click on the Year and Click on Download/print return (PDF)

You can also get free transcripts of your federal return from the IRS - http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/Get-Transcript

For a fee of $50 you can get a complete federal tax return from the IRS by completing Form 4506 - http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4506.pdf

New Member
Apr 27, 2021 8:00:19 AM

I would like to get a copy of my 2017 tax returns

Expert Alumni
Apr 27, 2021 9:44:11 AM

To access your current or prior year online tax returns sign onto the TurboTax website with the userID you used to create the account - https://myturbotax.intuit.com/ 

 

Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and on the section Your tax returns & documents click on Show.  Click on the Year and Click on Download/print return (PDF) 

 

Or - 

 

When you sign onto your online account and land on the Tax Home web page, scroll down and click on Add a state.  

 

This will take you back in to the 2020 online tax return. 

 

Click on Tax Tools on the left side of the online program screen.  Then click on Print Center.  Then click on Print, save or preview this year's return.  Choose the option Include government and TurboTax worksheets 

Returning Member
Nov 23, 2021 5:47:36 PM

how do i find my 2017 tax return?

 

Level 15
Nov 23, 2021 6:10:20 PM

@trussie007

  You have to access your own account and/or  print it for yourself using exactly the same account and user ID that you used when you prepared the return.

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/prior-year-return/help/how-do-i-access-my-prior-year-return/01/27010

 

Many people have multiple TT accounts and forget how to access them.  Log out of the account you are in now.

 

Account recovery

https://myturbotax.intuit.com/account-recovery/

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1901535-forgot-your-turbotax-online-user-id-or-password

Or did you use the desktop version of TurboTax?  If so, the files are on your own hard drive or any backup device you used like a flash drive.

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1901486-how-many-turbotax-accounts-do-i-have

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1901535

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1901659-find-your-tax-data-file-in-mac

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1900721-find-your-tax-data-file-tax-file-in-windows

 

To get a copy of your previously filed returns prepared with online TurboTax https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1900748-how-do-i-get-a-copy-of-a-return-i-filed-in-turbotax-online

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1900748-how-do-i-get-a-copy-of-a-return-i-filed-this-year-in-turbotax-online

 

SAVE YOUR TAX RETURN !

 

EVERY year before mid-October you should save a copy of your tax return as a pdf and print a copy of it for your records.  That way you will not be searching online frantically when you need it for a lender, FAFSA forms, your next tax return, etc. 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1900937-why-should-i-save-a-pdf-copy-of-my-return

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1899779-what-s-the-difference-between-the-tax-data-file-and-the-pdf-file

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1912466-how-do-i-save-my-return-as-a-pdf-in-the-turbotax-software-for-windows

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1912533-how-do-i-save-my-return-as-a-pdf-in-the-turbotax-software-for-mac•

Returning Member
Nov 29, 2021 9:31:56 AM

send my 2017 taxes to [email address removed]

Level 15
Nov 29, 2021 9:37:48 AM


@trussie007 wrote:

send my 2017 taxes to [email address removed]


TurboTax cannot mail or email your tax returns to you.  You can download a PDF of the returns yourself.

 

To access your prior year online tax returns sign onto the TurboTax website with the User ID you used to create the account - https://myturbotax.intuit.com/

Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and on the section Your tax returns & documents click on Show.  Click on the Year and Click on Download/print return (PDF)

 

If you used the desktop CD/Download editions installed on your computer, the only copy of your tax data file and any PDF's will be on the computer where the return was created.  TurboTax does not store online any returns completed using the desktop editions.

 

Or go to this IRS website for free federal tax return transcripts - https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript

For a fee of $43 you can get a complete federal tax return from the IRS by completing Form 4506 - http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4506.pdf