If I understand the answers, then the current version of turbotax only opens the current year tax file. If I try to use the current version of turbotax to open a previous year tax, then all I get is the option to import that previous year tax into the current year tax. If this is the case, then this is no good at all. I have a new computer with only the current version of turbotax 2021, but I have several years' worth of turbotax tax files in storage that I need to access. Does it mean that if I want to open the 2020 turbotax file then I have to install the year 2020 turbotax program? And so forth for each previous year?
Clearly turbotax 2021 is capable of recognizing the file as a turbotax file 2020, why couldn't it just open it? To make thing more interesting now the 2020 file has the file type associated with the 2021 exe, so if you double-click on the file, it just goes back to the same display.
Any thoughts would be appreciated, and maybe it is time to check another tax program to see if they have a different approach.
Ivan Lozada, [email address removed]
