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Get your taxes done using TurboTax

Make sure you're signing in with the same user ID that you used last year. 

 

If you do not have this information Use our account recovery tool to see if you have other user IDs tied to your email address.

 

See these tips for transferring your prior year's data:


See this is if  you used the TurboTax Desktop software last year

  1. Sign in to TurboTax Online and start a new return, or open or continue a return you already started.
  2. Select Tax Tools and then Tools.
  3. Select Transfer last year's TurboTax return from your computer.
  4. Follow the instructions to finish transferring your file.
  • You won't be able to transfer a PDF, it must be a tax data file with a filename extension .tax2022.
  • Remove any password protection from the data file before transferring.
  • If you already started your 2023 return in TurboTax Online, transferring will clear any info you have already entered.

Click here If you used other tax software last year

 

If you see error messages like Transfer Was Unsuccessful, Internal Error, or Unable to Read Data, try these fixes:

  1. Close and restart TurboTax.
  2. Save a new copy of last year's return and transfer from the new copy.
  3. Reinstall your prior-year TurboTax software.
  4. Reinstall your current year TurboTax software.

 

You can also see our instructions on transferring a PDF or .tax file.


Click here for a video on how to transfer last year's tax data into TurboTax.

 

Click here for How to Import Last Year's Taxes into TurboTax.

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