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Two Separate Tax Programs Opened Simultaneously

DaveGrant — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:10:53 GMT

In the past, I've always been able to open my last year's tax return in that year's turbo tax program while i was working on the current year. This seems not to be allowed starting in 2023. Is there a work aroubnd?

Re: Two Separate Tax Programs Opened Simultaneously

SteamTrain — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 23:20:37 GMT

I won't bother installing 2023 until January...but that's just me.....so I can't be sure . Yeah, hope they fix that by then.

BUT___________

Workaround? Sure....probably.

Create a PDF of your 2022 file...either just the tax return as-filed, or include all the worksheets if you are looking for the gory details in it.. then shut down the 2022 program.

Then you can have the 2022 PDF file opened up at the same time as you are running the 2023 program.

Re: Two Separate Tax Programs Opened Simultaneously

dmertz — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 00:17:17 GMT

I noticed this too, but I was able to get both opened by starting TurboTax 2022 first, then TurboTax 2023. I only saw the problem if I started TurboTax 2023 first.

Re: Two Separate Tax Programs Opened Simultaneously

Mike9241 — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 00:19:19 GMT

online or desktop? windows or mac? the reason I ask is that I use windows desktop and was able to have all the years 2018-2022 opened simultaneously.

Re: Two Separate Tax Programs Opened Simultaneously

NCperson — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 00:27:38 GMT

@dmertz @DaveGrant - may have been a bug (windows Desktop Deluxe)

I just opened 2023 and then opened 2022 without issue.

interestingly, I loaded 2023 on Wednesday, received a 'weekly' update on Thursday morning and then received another 'weekly' update just now (friday evening).

suggest trying again,

Re: Two Separate Tax Programs Opened Simultaneously

dmertz — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 01:22:26 GMT

My experience is with Windows 11, today's update to 2023 TurboTax and a version of 2022 TurboTax last updated many months ago, so not the latest 2022 TurboTax.

Re: Two Separate Tax Programs Opened Simultaneously

Lovlilynne — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 21:17:40 GMT

Did anyone ever hear if this was a bug? Is there a work-around? It's happening to me, and I've received all the updates. Windows 11 - Premier version. I get an error, "TurboTax is already running under another account. Switch users and run TurboTax from the other account to continue."

Error: 70001

Re: Two Separate Tax Programs Opened Simultaneously

SteamTrain — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 22:04:02 GMT

@Lovlilynne

When it happens, I found that shutting down 2023, and opening the prior years first, then 2023 last, allows all to run at once.

Not sure why this is happening, but this year's 2023 version, has some extra verification stuff in it tha may be interacting with the prior years in ways the TTX programmers didn't expect.

User experience varies as to which years may cause issues. I can start 2022 & 2023 in any order, but my 2020 & 2021 must be started up before 2023 . (I'm on Windows 11 , Premier desktop)

Re: Two Separate Tax Programs Opened Simultaneously

JJ_SLC — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 04:21:44 GMT

@dmertz This worked for me - thank you!