You need to have the .tax file for the last year on your hard drive for the TurboTax Desktop to pick up last year's data.
If you used the TurboTax Desktop CD/Download last year, you need to transfer (via thumb drive) the 2018 .tax file from your old computer.
If you used TurboTax Online last year, you will need to download the .tax file from your online account.
- Sign in to your TurboTax account.
- On the first page, you come to, scroll down until you come to Tax Returns and Documents, click Show
- Click 2018, and then download .tax file
Once you have the .tax file on the same hard drive as your TurboTax software, the software import the data in the file.
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