How do I download the 2015 tax software

[LindaA]

Click this link: order the 2015 TurboTax software

How do I download the software I purchased at TurboTax.com?  https://ttlc.intuit.com/replies/3302070

[xmasbaby0]

@mpmartin1999 Your post is blank--but you were on a thread about downloading 2015 software-  Sorry--2015 is no longer available nor is it supported.  You can use the paper forms and prepare them by hand to mail in if you want :

2015

Form 1040  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/f1040--2015.pdf

Form1040 Instructions  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/i1040gi--2015.pdf

Form1040A  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/f1040a--2015.pdf

Form 1040A Instructions  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/i1040a--2015.pdf

Form 1040EZ   https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/f1040ez--2015.pdf

Form 1040EZ Instructions  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/i1040ez--2015.pdf

https://www.irs.gov/filing/where-to-file-paper-tax-returns-with-or-without-a-payment

[Carl]

TurboTax 2015 is no longer available or supported by TurboTax. TurboTax only supports their software for the current tax filing season (2019 as of the date of this post) and 3 years back.

While you may be able to purchase TurboTax 2015 from a third party, you will *not* be able to get the "REQUIRED" corrections and updates to the program. This means that a tax return prepared with TurboTax 2015 will probably be wrong, and TurboTax will *NOT* honor their 100% accuracy guarantee on their program for 2015 and older.

Additionally, if upon filing your 2015 tax return you will be due a refund, you will *NOT* get it. The IRS has a three year statute of limitations on refunds. However, if you will owe the IRS then you are required to pay what you owe. Ironic, but that's the law.

[brandnew831]

Maybe you can answer this question. I had not filed my 2015 taxes and owed money, but when I filed my 2020 taxes recently the IRS withheld the amount due. If I go ahead and file my 2015 taxes now do you think they will give me the amount they withheld for 2020 taxes? I know I will get a refund for 2015 but per your post they won't pay that out. So essentially wondering if it's worth still filing 2015 and whether I will get back my refund they withheld for 2020

Thx

[xmasbaby0]

If you owed tax due for 2015 why do you think you would now receive a refund if you file 2015?   There is no statute of limitations for the IRS to get paid for tax due---you owe it until you pay it.  You have three years to receive a refund, but you are not given a pass if you owe---you still owe for 2015 and they are not going to give your money back after offsetting that money from your 2020 refund.  Or am I misunderstanding what you are asking?

You can try filing the 2015 return.   You will not be able to use TT software---that software is no longer available.   You can prepare the return yourself using the instructions and paper forms.

https://www.irs.gov/filing/where-to-file-paper-tax-returns-with-or-without-a-payment

2015

Form 1040  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/f1040--2015.pdf

Form1040 Instructions  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/i1040gi--2015.pdf

Form1040A  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/f1040a--2015.pdf

Form 1040A Instructions  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/i1040a--2015.pdf

Form 1040EZ   https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/f1040ez--2015.pdf

Form 1040EZ Instructions  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/i1040ez--2015.pdf

[brandnew831]

To clarify, they withheld the amount I owed for 2015 from my 2020 refund, so now don't owe for 2015 anymore. If I would have filed timely in 2015 I would have been owed a refund, which I know I wouldn't receive now (per the 3 year statute), but I'm wondering if I file 2015 now would they refund the amount they recently held from my 2020 refund. 

[VolvoGirl]

It's still not clear.  First you said you would have had a 2015 tax due which they took out of your 2020 refund.  Now you say if you had filed a timely 2015 return you would have had a Refund.  Which is it?

[xmasbaby0]

@brandnew831 "would have owed a refund" makes no sense at all.   Sorry---you are not being clear.   When you prepare a tax return you either OWE tax due or you can RECEIVE a refund.  There is no such thing as owing a refund.

So----was the 2020 return you just filed the first time you have filed a tax return in a few years?   Did you file tax returns for 2016, 2017, 2018 or 2019?   It seems the IRS knows you owe tax for 2015 and that is why they reduced your refund----or at least that is why you think they reduced your refund.   Did you prepare a 2015 return and just not pay?   Did you even send in a 2015 tax return?    What other tax returns (if any) have you filed since then?