If you're using the "download/print" link on the Tax Home page, try this instead.
Go to "Your Tax Returns & Documents." Under 2018 choose to "Download/print the PDF."
If
that doesn't have what you need without the watermark, here's how to open your return back up to
go the Print Center where you can choose various PDFs.
NOTE: When you open your return back up, do not make any changes in it since it's already been filed.
- Log in and go to "Your Tax Returns & Documents." Click that line or on the word SHOW to expand that section.
- Choose 2018 tax year.
- Click on "Add a State." (you don't really add one. That's just to open your return back up.)
- After the return is open, click in the left menu column on TAX TOOLS, then PRINT CENTER.
- Then choose "Print, save, view this year's return."
- The next screen should offer 3 options: "Just my tax returns", or
"include government worksheets (optional)", or "include government and
TurboTax worksheets (optional.)"
- See if one of those PDFs has what you need without the watermark.
NOTE: Do NOT use this method to open a return to make changes/edits to an
already-filed return (one that has actually been mailed or efiled.) If you later need to make changes to an already-filed return, you have to
go through the formal amending process, and your return must start off
exactly as originally filed.
NOTE: Remember all PDF tax documents and data
files are very sensitive files, since they contain your personal ID
info, financial data, and possibly bank account numbers, etc. Be sure
to store them safely and securely to guard against computer theft,
hacking, etc.
