Tax return 2020

[Cabrerasab]

I have a question hoping someone would help. Why would irs ask for a copy of my 2017 tax return? 

[xmasbaby0]

What good would it do to ask strangers to guess?  There could be many reasons.  If the IRS sent you a letter, read it very carefully.   Then send them a copy of the tax return they want.

[xmasbaby0]

@Cabrerasab Please keep all of your related questions in a thread in the user forum. It is somewhat unclear what the IRS has asked you for.   A 2016 tax return would have been filed in 2017; a 2017 tax return would have been filed in 2018----assuming they were prepared and filed by the filing deadlines.  Your private message indicates the IRS wants your 2017 return--so maybe they did not get it.  Did you file it---but was it rejected and you did not notice?  If so, that means it was not filed and the IRS did not ever receive it.

Look in your TT account and see what it says for your 2017 return.  If it says anything other than "accepted" that means it was not filed.  

If you cannot find your 2017 account:

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