Here's how to obtain copies of a prior year return(s) you filed in TurboTax Online:
If you don't see your tax year listed, you may have multiple accounts. https://myturbotax.intuit.com/account-recovery/
Hope this was helpful!
Here's how to obtain copies of a prior year return(s) you filed in TurboTax Online:
If you don't see your tax year listed, you may have multiple accounts. https://myturbotax.intuit.com/account-recovery/
Hope this was helpful!
It doesn't say "My TurboTax" or have a dropdown with "My Tax Timeline" anywhere on my screen.
It just says "TurboTax" "Search", "help", "Intuit Account", and "sign out" are the other options.
You can access your prior year returns using the Documents tab in the navigation.
If you filed your 2018 taxes with TurboTax, and would like to receive a copy to complete this year's tax return, please click, How do I access a prior year return?
If you did not file your 2018 taxes with TurboTax, and would like to receive a copy to complete this year's tax return, please click Can I get a copy of my tax return from the IRS?
Turbo Tax would not let me access the prior year's return without paying for the current year. Kind of a bummer since I paid for last year's return at the time
You will always have the option of ordering your tax transcript for free from the IRS. Please review the following article with instructions to order your tax transcript. How do I get a copy of my tax return or transcript ...
@maciassk Which TurboTax product are you trying to access your prior return on? If you're using TurboTax Online, once you sign in to your TurboTax account, the Documents tab is directly below Tax home on the left side of your screen. If you still have difficulty locating it, please reach out for assistance via telephone: What is TurboTax phone number?
I'm unable to do retrieve old returns without committing to doing taxes with them this year as well which is complete garbage given the fact that we've paid for those returns.
@jdarnold11 wrote:
I'm unable to do this as well which is complete garbage given the fact that we've paid for those returns.
To access your current or 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)
See this TurboTax support FAQ for accessing prior year online tax returns - https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/prior-year-return/help/how-do-i-access-my-prior-year-return/01/270...
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 $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
This was DEFINITELY NOT helpful as the first instruction says "click on my turbo and I do not have that option" When I tried calling the ROBOT ask if I was interesting in speaking to a CPA to upgrade when clearly what I need is tech support. I'm already using your service and yet I'm being ask to upgrade just to get thru. This is HORRIBLE
@Darlenetax2019 wrote:
This was DEFINITELY NOT helpful as the first instruction says "click on my turbo and I do not have that option" When I tried calling the ROBOT ask if I was interesting in speaking to a CPA to upgrade when clearly what I need is tech support. I'm already using your service and yet I'm being ask to upgrade just to get thru. This is HORRIBLE
Then you are not signing onto the prior year online account with the same User ID you used to create the account. Many users have multiple User ID's.
You have to sign onto your online account using the exact same user ID you used to create the 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 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 current or 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)
See this TurboTax support FAQ for accessing prior year online tax returns - https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/prior-year-return/help/how-do-i-access-my-prior-year-return/01/270...
DoninGA,
You are either not listening or not understand the problem being stated. For everyone who goes to the turbotax website, when we sign in, we do not have any of the options you are talking about. There is search and help in the upper right, there is only one menu option on the left called "turbotax" then on the bottom left there is Intuit Account and Sign Out.
Now for everyone having this problem, I have found the solution. The problem seems to stem from the default "sign in" being to filing this years taxes only and not the full sign in website for whatever reason they decided to set it up that way.
Solution: (You may be able to go directly to step 5)
1) If you are signed in, sign out.
2) Go to the main website: https://turbotax.intuit.com/
3) DO NOT SIGN IN.
4) Click on After you file/Go To Turbo. Further explanation: On the menu (you might have to click the hamburger icon - the three parallel lines near the upper right if your window is small), hover over or click on "After you file". Then click on Go To Turbo
5) This will bring you to https://turbo.intuit.com/
6) Sign in
7) Click on Tax Home on the left.
😎 Click on documents.
9) Select Year
10) click Download tax PDF.
That no longer works AND I decided to use the CD version this year which will NOT let me access previous year's returns
Nice going, TurboTax. Been using you online since 2013 and CD before that and I'm done with you. Shame on you.
I bought an new computer and my turbo tax files did not copy over. How do I get past years of tax returns
@sullymeg Did you use the Online version or Desktop program? What files didn't copy over? How did you expect them to? You you use a flash drive and copy them?
Assuming you are asking about the Desktop program...
You only need the file ending in .tax2019 to transfer into 2020.
Your tax files end in .tax or .tax2015, .tax2016, .tax2017 or .tax2018 etc. They should be in your Documents in a Turbo Tax folder. You should also have the pdf files of each year. Or search your computer for all files ending in .tax. Also if you haven't done it, I would open each year in the program and save it as a PDF file, go to File-Save to PDF so you don't need the program installed to view or print your return in the future like to get a mortgage or loan, etc.
What I would do is just copy the whole Turbo Tax folder that is under your Documents. That should be where the .tax files and pdf files are stored. Copy that folder to a flash drive or best yet is to burn it to a CD or DVD and then you will have a backup of them. Then on the new computer copy the folder (or files) from the flash drive to your Documents folder.
The programs need to be installed from the CD or download them again. You don't need to install them unless you need to amend or open a return.
After you get the program installed the first thing to do before you open your tax return is to update the program and install any state programs you had. Then open your file. So you first might need to start a fake return to be able to download the state program (go to File-New Tax Return).
Then go to FILE -Open and find your return.
See this article on how to move your tax return to another computer…….
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)
@CatinaT1
below is the message that continues to pop up when I try to access my 2017 tax pdf. I called TurboTax and he said I didn’t even file with them in 2017. Clearly I did because it’s in my account and I have an email confirmation from TT that I filed. So how do I get my 2017? That I paid to file. I know I can get a copy from the IRS but shouldn’t I be able to get it through TT?
Download your past TurboTax returns
Looks like you didn't file with us last year or you filed using a TurboTax product that doesn't include access to prior-year returns.
To download your prior-year TurboTax returns, just get started with your 2019 tax return in the TurboTax product that's right for you.
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
I am unable to access 2014, 15, 16, or 17 without paying to file last year and 2018. They also want me to pay extra to access them when I payed for "plus" all those years. I only have one username. This is a scam. Why would I ever complete my taxes in the furture with these people?
@Jennad56 wrote:
I am unable to access 2014, 15, 16, or 17 without paying to file last year and 2018. They also want me to pay extra to access them when I payed for "plus" all those years. I only have one username. This is a scam. Why would I ever complete my taxes in the furture with these people?
There is no requirement for you to pay for anything to access prior year TurboTax online tax returns.
To access your current or prior year 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.
Donin GA,
Looked like those instructions figured out how to get around TurboTax's unethical data hiding. I say this because, following those instructions, when you first arrive at the second site you can see TAX HOME and dot-dot-dots place holders where presumably prior tax years documents would be. But not long thereafter you get redirected back to their pay site. Incredibly frustrating experience to have to work this hard to get documents after paying for the tax preparation service. And I have downloaded the tax programs for the past several years and therefore have no way to reload that year's TurboTax program to get my past years tax returns that are infact saved on this computer and in the Cloud.
@billgregoryusafa If you used the Desktop program the only copies are on your computer. Did you save the pdf file each year? If you only have the .tax2018, .tax2017 etc. files you need that year installed to open it. Do you still have the CDs or you can download the program again? Did you buy from Turbo Tax?
If you need to download your program…..
https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/installing/help/how-do-i-download-the-software-i-purchased-at-turbotax-com/00/26075
Access your downloads here
https://shop.turbotax.intuit.com/commerce/account/secure/login.jsp?pagecontext=download
After you get the program reinstalled the first thing to do before you open your tax return is to update the program and install any state programs you had. Then open your file. So you first might need to start a fake return to be able to download the state program (go to FILE - NEW). Enter some basic information, then go to the state tab and download the state program. Then try to open your existing return, go to FILE - OPEN
If you can’t find or install the program to open a .tax file you can use www.taxprinter.com to convert a .tax file to pdf. No connection to Turbo Tax. They might be expensive.
Or get a copy from the IRS. http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/Get-Transcript
Or order an exact copy of your tax return (including all attachments) from the IRS. There is a fee per tax return. See http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc156.html for complete instructions