How do I export a .txf file FROM Turbotax?

[wooodworker]

I need to export my prior year tax return as a TXF file.    Turbotax will not let me do that.  It is like they have a copyright on MY ax return.   It is MY information, not Turbotax's.   Turbotax needs to grant access to income tax returns via any format, not just their programs

[SForrestLO]

Did you use the online version or CD/Download for your prior year?

@wooodworker

[bg407]

I used the online version last year. I need a tfx file to import last year's return into a different tax program.  Turbo tax needs to be more helpful like that - I did pay a lot of money last year to use your software.  Plus if they charged less money, I would have used it again this year.

[CarissaM]

To review or print a prior year return, please follow the instructions here. 

Please let us know if we can further assist you. @bg407 

[bg407]

I'm sorry, but that doesn't answer the question about how to get my tax return in a txf file from Turbo Tax. I have read you don't do them. If that's true, just say so. If it's not true, please let me know how to get it exported that way. Thank you.

[JulieS]

You can't export your return from TurboTax in the .txf format. As mentioned above, .tax and .pdf are the available formats for exporting your tax return. 

[lyle7]

It turns out the tax file format is not public and appears not to be xml but encoded in some fashion.

So the best way to handle this is to go back to the 2021 turbotax, and print return for records with all forms and calculation worksheets. In the list of forms you will find a capital loss carryover and a a federal carryover worksheet, of many pages dealing first with state and local income taxes, then other tax and income info, Excess contributions, loss and expense carryovers, credit carryovers other carryovers charitable contribution carryovers, qualified business sec 199 carryovers  Then the question is how to enter these in H&R block.