Let's deal with the 2018 return first, and I'll ask you about 2017 at the bottom of this post. Have you already filed your 2018 return? When you download the 2018 PDF at the Tax Home in the section "Your Tax Returns & Documents", does your PDF only have 1 page? Starting for 2018 returns, there is a new Form 1040. Page 1 and Page 2 of the new 1040 are only half-page in length. They will both print on the same side of the page. So Pages 1 and 2 will be on one side of the page. If you are supposed to have additional forms and schedules that are not in your PDF, as well as the optional worksheets, the steps below will allow you get larger 2018 PDFs at the Print Center.
NOTE: When you open your return back up, do not make any changes in it since it's already been filed.
- Log in and go to "Your Tax Returns & Documents." Click that line or on the word SHOW to expand that section.
- Choose 2018 tax year.
- Click on "Add a State." (you don't really add one. That's just to open your return back up.)
- After the return is open, click in the left menu column on TAX TOOLS, then PRINT CENTER.
- Then choose "Print, save, view this year's return."
- The next screen should offer 3 options: "Just my tax returns", or "include government worksheets (optional)", or "include government and TurboTax worksheets (optional.)"
- See if one of those PDFs has what you need. The latter option has the most pages.
NOTE: Do NOT use this method to open a return to make changes/edits to an already-filed return (one that has actually been mailed or efiled.) If you later need to make changes to an already-filed return, you have to go through the formal amending process, and your return must start off exactly as originally filed.
NOTE: Remember all PDF tax documents and tax data files are very sensitive files, since they contain your personal ID info, financial data, and possibly bank account numbers, etc. Be sure to store them safely and securely to guard against computer theft, hacking, etc.
Now for the 2017 return. What happens when you go to the section "Your Tax Returns & Documents", expand the section, choose tax year 2017, and download/print the PDF? Does it also have only one page? If so, that can be normal if it is a Form 1040-EZ. See DoninGA's additional reply on this page about a 2017 return.
