How to import my 2021 Turbo Tax Return -Mac Desktop version AFTER I have already started on my 2022 return

[Cinderellah1234]

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Re Mac Desktop Home and Business 2022  Turbo Tax Software. Downloaded.

After starting my 2022 Turbo Tax return I noticed none of my previous year"s (2021) Turbo Tax Return data has been imported even though I thought I did.

How do I go about importing  my previous years (2021) Turbo Tax Return data now that I have already started and saved the partially complete 2022 return?

[VolvoGirl]

Sorry you can't.   You can only Transfer the prior year at the beginning before you start 2022.    So you would need to start over, go up to File-New.  Or have to manually enter any 2021 info as you go along.  

[rjs]

Sorry, but there is no way to transfer data from the previous year after you have started the tax return. You can only transfer when you first start the return, before you enter any new information.

How do I transfer last year's return into the 2022 TurboTax software for Mac?

[xmasbaby0]

Sorry---you have to transfer 2021 in to 2022 BEFORE you start entering any new information.  You cannot do that after you have already begun putting in 2022 information.

If you need to transfer, then you will have to start over.

How to transfer last year’s return? https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1900883

[Cinderellah1234]

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Per your email...

How do you start all over again?

I have tried going back but I do not see anything that says START AGAIN.

What do ido?

I have spent a LOT of time trying to start again.

Can you please detail the steps one by one?

PLEASE HELP!!

Thanks in advance.

[VolvoGirl]

To start over in the Desktop program you just start a NEW return.  Go up to the very top bar and go to File-New Tax return.   This first return will still be on your computer so give the new return a new name to tell them  apart.   You can have multiple returns in the Desktop program.   

[VolvoGirl]

Did you try the steps in this link (that was posted above)?
https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/data-systems/transfer-last-year-return-2... 

[Cinderellah1234]

"Go up to the very top bar and go to File-New Tax return".

I am using a Downloaded desktop Mac 2022 Turbo tax Software.

When I go to File a new page opens up and it says we are ready to file your return.

There is no choice to FILE NEW RETURN.

Pease Help!!

I have been trying so hard just to get my 2021 tax return imported.

[Cinderellah1234]

"If you need to transfer, then you will have to start over".

How do you start over?

There is no choice that I can see anywhere that says:

Start NEW RETURN

or

START OVER.

The FILE tab on the very top does NOT give me any choice to start a new Return.

I am using a downloaded Mac 2022 TT software.

[Cinderellah1234]

Yes, I did try the link

1. Open TurboTax for Mac 2022 and choose File New Tax Return.

I do not see the choice of File New Tax Return when I open Turbo Tax.

Please Help!!

[VolvoGirl]

Sorry I use Windows.  Maybe someone with a Mac can post a screen shot.  Try going up to the Apple bar and Quit Turbo Tax.  Then relaunch the program and it may be back at the beginning screen.   

[xmasbaby0]

You are on a Mac?  Go up to the top of your screen next to the little apple. To the right of the apple it says TurboTax  -- keep moving to the right--   See the word "File?"   Click that and then click on New  Tax Return.   (You are making the mistake of going to the toolbar inside the program.)

[VolvoGirl]

It's not the File tab showing in your return.  It's the menu item File up in the very top Apple bar that is hidden.  Move your cursor up to the top so the Apple bar opens.  Then it's in one of the first menu drop-down items.  I don't recall what choices you have up there.  Maybe it says Turbo Tax.  

[Cinderellah1234]

I do not know how but I was able to get to a point that I can import last years (2021) Turbo Tax file on my Mac air. I tried importing the 2021 tax Return file. Now Turbo Tax says the file is too large to import.

I have 2022 Mac Home and Bus TT desktop software

What do I do?

How can do I my 2022 taxes if I cannot import the 2021 tax return?

Thank you

[rjs]

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@Cinderellah1234 wrote:

I do not know how but I was able to get to a point that I can import last years (2021) Turbo Tax file on my Mac air. I tried importing the 2021 tax Return file. Now Turbo Tax says the file is too large to import.

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If it actually uses the word "import" you're in the wrong place. In TurboTax, bringing your 2021 data into your 2022 tax return is called transferring, not importing. You can only transfer data from the previous year on the very first screen when you start a new tax return.