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posted Aug 1, 2025 7:25:45 PM

Prior taxes year

2022

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Level 15
Aug 1, 2025 7:30:19 PM

What is your question about 2022?   Do you need to file 2022?

2022 is now a prior year.

How to prepare a prior year return

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/using-turbotax/help/how-do-i-prepare-a-prior-year-tax-return/00/25984

 

How to finish a return you started online,

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/prior-year-return/help/how-do-i-finish-a-prior-year-return-that-i-...

 

Sorry it's too,late to start a 2022 or prior online return or use the mobile app, either on Turbo Tax or the IRS.  And too late to efile 2022.

 

If you need to start 2022 or prior you can buy the Desktop download here,

TurboTax® 2022 Prior Year Tax Prep - File Past Years' Taxes

You will need a full Windows or Mac to install it on.

 

If you have a simple return and want to file for free you can fill out the forms by hand.  Here are some basic forms.....

 

Here is the 2022 1040 return

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/f1040--2022.pdf

 

or if you want bigger type use 1040SR for Seniors,

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/f1040s--2022.pdf

 

2022 1040 Instructions

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/i1040gi--2022.pdf

 

2022 EIC and Tax Tables

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/i1040tt--2022.pdf

 

Schedules 1-3

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/f1040s1--2022.pdf

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/f1040s2--2022.pdf

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/f1040s3--2022.pdf

 

Don’t forget your state.  And you will have to print and mail your returns.  So be sure to attach copies of your W2s and any 1099s that have withholding on them.  You have to mail federal and state in separate envelopes because they go to different places.  Get a tracking number from the post office when you mail them for proof of filing.

Level 15
Aug 2, 2025 7:05:23 AM

@davidmpippin75 You did not ask a complete question, so we do not know what you are asking for.   Are you trying to find your own 2022 tax return?

 

 

  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://myturbotax.intuit.com/

 

Start a 2024 return online and enter some personal information  so that the menu on the left opens up and lets you access your past year returns.

 

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

 

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/save-2021-turbotax-online-return-pdf/L8dHfRkpT_US_en_US?uid=m5y4ch1y

 

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

 

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/account-management/many-intuit-accounts-turbotax/L9aVfKS1Z_US_en_US?uid=ll5g6zcx

Account Recovery

 

 

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/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-return/find-last-year-tax-data-file-tax-file-computer/L0XJvPaJr_US_en_US?uid=m6gufxei

 

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/data-systems/find-tax-data-file-mac/L4VNGm33S_US_en_US?uid=m6guhab0

You can get a free transcript from the IRS or for a fee of $30, an actual copy of your tax return.

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

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4506.pdf

 

 

 

SAVE YOUR TAX RETURNS !

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/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/save-2021-turbotax-online-return-pdf/L8dHfRkpT_US_en_US?uid=m6guj526

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/save-2021-turbotax-online-return-pdf/L8dHfRkpT_US_en_US?uid=m78eb8pc

In order to transfer a past year return to the new return you need the tax file

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/save-turbotax-online-return-tax-data-file/L4xwOG3LF_US_en_US?uid=m6guk3xl

 

NOTE:  TurboTax and the IRS save returns for seven years.  Returns older than seven years are purged.