topic Can I have my own account? My wife passed away almost two years ago,, yet it’s still in her name.. it’s under my email account but we started with her name in Get your taxes done using TurboTax

Can I have my own account? My wife passed away almost two years ago,, yet it’s still in her name.. it’s under my email account but we started with her name

davidballard1975 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:55:11 GMT

Re: Can I have my own account? My wife passed away almost two years ago,, yet it’s still in her name.. it’s under my email account but we started with her name

xmasbaby0 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:19:30 GMT

Very sorry for your loss. Yes, you should now have your own account. For the year that your spouse passed, you could use that account and file a joint return. But if you are now filing as Single, you need your own account and user ID. It is too difficult to remove the spouse's information from an account that was used for joint returns, and it will cause too many errors for you.

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/using-turbotax/help/how-do-i-start-another-return-in-turbotax-online/00/25596

https://blog.turbotax.intuit.com/tax-planning-2/tax-implications-for-taxpayers-who-have-lost-a-spouse-45419/

Re: Can I have my own account? My wife passed away almost two years ago,, yet it’s still in her name.. it’s under my email account but we started with her name

DoninGA — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:19:52 GMT

You will need to create a new account with a new User ID.

Go to this TurboTax website and click on Sign up in the upper right of the screen - https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal-taxes/online/file-your-own-taxes/

You can have the same email address for up to 5 different TurboTax accounts.

Re: Can I have my own account? My wife passed away almost two years ago,, yet it’s still in her name.. it’s under my email account but we started with her name

SteamTrain — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:47:33 GMT

Make sure you download every PDF file of each tax return you filed under her account, and back them up offline on a USB flash drive.

At some time in the future, you might lose access to those older files, and it may help if you have the actual files in your possession as PDF files. They only go back 7 years, and TTX takes one older year PDF off that account in each succeeding tax year.