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I went to submit my 2023 taxes a few days ago, and it hung. It wiped out all my progress, and apparently my 2021 and 2022 returns too. Any ideas what I can do?

 
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I went to submit my 2023 taxes a few days ago, and it hung. It wiped out all my progress, and apparently my 2021 and 2022 returns too. Any ideas what I can do?

If using Online TurboTax, I would be suspicious that you have more than one account and signed into the wrong one.   I'll tell you how to look for multiple accounts and recover an account.

 

You can have up to 5 accounts that use the same email address for notification purposes.  A User ID may be an email address, but it doesn't have to be.  It might be only part of an email address, or it can be anything at all.

 

To get a list of your User IDs, reset password, and recover account access, etc., you can use the tool at the link below.  When using the Account Recovery tool, try using your phone number first if you can still access it.   After that, if necessary, then run the tool on your email address(es) you can access.

NOTE: Before running the account recovery tool below, log out of all Intuit accounts including this user forum, or you might end up in a loop.  Then clear your browser Internet cache, close your browser, then reopen it, and go to the link below.  You may wish to copy this link so you can paste it into the new browser session.

https://myturbotax.intuit.com/account-recovery

If still no luck after running that on your phone number you can still access and email address(es) that you can access,  here's another method:

Go back to the tool again, but this time leave the data field blank, scroll down a bit, then choose the small blue link that says "Try something else", and it will look you up other parameters.

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I went to submit my 2023 taxes a few days ago, and it hung. It wiped out all my progress, and apparently my 2021 and 2022 returns too. Any ideas what I can do?

If using Online TurboTax, I would be suspicious that you have more than one account and signed into the wrong one.   I'll tell you how to look for multiple accounts and recover an account.

 

You can have up to 5 accounts that use the same email address for notification purposes.  A User ID may be an email address, but it doesn't have to be.  It might be only part of an email address, or it can be anything at all.

 

To get a list of your User IDs, reset password, and recover account access, etc., you can use the tool at the link below.  When using the Account Recovery tool, try using your phone number first if you can still access it.   After that, if necessary, then run the tool on your email address(es) you can access.

NOTE: Before running the account recovery tool below, log out of all Intuit accounts including this user forum, or you might end up in a loop.  Then clear your browser Internet cache, close your browser, then reopen it, and go to the link below.  You may wish to copy this link so you can paste it into the new browser session.

https://myturbotax.intuit.com/account-recovery

If still no luck after running that on your phone number you can still access and email address(es) that you can access,  here's another method:

Go back to the tool again, but this time leave the data field blank, scroll down a bit, then choose the small blue link that says "Try something else", and it will look you up other parameters.

I went to submit my 2023 taxes a few days ago, and it hung. It wiped out all my progress, and apparently my 2021 and 2022 returns too. Any ideas what I can do?

To access your prior year online tax returns sign onto the TurboTax website with the User ID you used to create the account - https://myturbotax.intuit.com/

 

On the Tax Home webpage -

Scroll down to the section Your tax returns & documents.  Click on the Year and Click on Download/print return (PDF)

 

If you used the desktop CD/Download editions installed on your computer, the only copy of your tax data file and any PDF's will be on the computer where the return was created.  TurboTax does not store online any returns completed using the desktop editions.

I went to submit my 2023 taxes a few days ago, and it hung. It wiped out all my progress, and apparently my 2021 and 2022 returns too. Any ideas what I can do?

Thank you! This was the issue. I apparently had two accounts, and had to select the other one. Still not sure how any of that happened, but it's all sorted. Thanks again!

I went to submit my 2023 taxes a few days ago, and it hung. It wiped out all my progress, and apparently my 2021 and 2022 returns too. Any ideas what I can do?

Well, logged back in just now to get a look at 2024 taxes, and once again, it's only going back to 2020. I found this post from when this happened last year, and tried to use the account recovery tool like this most helpful answer suggested, but now that just take me to the wrong TurboTax account. It doesn't let me select a different account like it did last year. Is there an updated process, or am I really just out of luck this time around?

I went to submit my 2023 taxes a few days ago, and it hung. It wiped out all my progress, and apparently my 2021 and 2022 returns too. Any ideas what I can do?

  You have to access your own account and/or  print it for yourself using exactly the same account and user ID that you used when you prepared the return.

 

Start a 2024 return online and enter some personal information  so that the menu on the left opens up and lets you access your past year returns.

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/prior-year-return/help/how-do-i-access-my-prior-year-return/01/270...

 

Many people have multiple TT accounts and forget how to access them.  Log out of the account you are in now.

 

Account Recovery

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1901535-forgot-your-turbotax-online-user-id-or-password

 

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1901486-how-many-turbotax-accounts-do-i-have

 

Or did you use the desktop version of TurboTax?  If so, the files are on your own hard drive or any backup device you used like a flash drive.

 

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1901659-find-your-tax-data-file-in-mac

 

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-return/find-last-year-tax-data-file-...

 

 

You can get a free transcript from the IRS or for a fee of $30, an actual copy of your tax return.

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4506.pdf

 

 

 

SAVE YOUR TAX RETURNS !

 

EVERY year before mid-October you should save a copy of your tax return as a pdf and print a copy of it for your records.  That way you will not be searching online frantically when you need it for a lender, FAFSA forms, your next tax return, etc. 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1900937-why-should-i-save-a-pdf-copy-of-my-return

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1899779-what-s-the-difference-between-the-tax-data-file-and-the-pd...

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1912466-how-do-i-save-my-return-as-a-pdf-in-the-turbotax-software-...

 

 

NOTE:  TurboTax and the IRS save returns for seven years.  Returns older than seven years are purged.

**Disclaimer: Every effort has been made to offer the most correct information possible. The poster disclaims any legal responsibility for the accuracy of the information that is contained in this post.**

I went to submit my 2023 taxes a few days ago, and it hung. It wiped out all my progress, and apparently my 2021 and 2022 returns too. Any ideas what I can do?

I am pretty sure that I'm logged in with the same account (tried with email and phone) as I have the eFile confirmation emails. I have PDFs saved locally of all my previous returns as well. When I log in to TurboTax though, the returns stop at 2020. Last year this happened too, and I used the Account Recovery tool linked in this thread. That let me select from two different profiles (not sure if that's the terminology), and I was able to select the one that had the last few years' returns. It's not showing me that selection now.

 

Like I said, I have the PDFs, but I don't want to have to manually fill everything back in from those previous returns. My situation is more complex than a simple 1040 file (itemize, rental property, 1099 contract work, etc.), so this really is a big deal for me.

I went to submit my 2023 taxes a few days ago, and it hung. It wiped out all my progress, and apparently my 2021 and 2022 returns too. Any ideas what I can do?

Are you sure you used online TT?  Or did you switch after 2020 and use desktop software----the CD/download?  If you used desktop software, the files are stored locally on your own hard drive, and not stored online in an account.   Have you checked your own hard drive?

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1901659-find-your-tax-data-file-in-mac

 

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-return/find-last-year-tax-data-file-...

 

**Disclaimer: Every effort has been made to offer the most correct information possible. The poster disclaims any legal responsibility for the accuracy of the information that is contained in this post.**

I went to submit my 2023 taxes a few days ago, and it hung. It wiped out all my progress, and apparently my 2021 and 2022 returns too. Any ideas what I can do?

Yes, I have only ever used the online version. I've never purchased the desktop version. Is my description of how the Account Recovery is supposed to work accurate, letting you select from different accounts tied to the same email address/phone?

 

I was also a Mint user, and I'm concerned that perhaps something got mixed up in all the account transfers/syncs between Mint > Intuit Account. I also never made the jump to Credit Karma, so if the other profile began life as a Mint account, it might have gotten culled when the Mint accounts were deleted.

I went to submit my 2023 taxes a few days ago, and it hung. It wiped out all my progress, and apparently my 2021 and 2022 returns too. Any ideas what I can do?

@jtingle   If you have two different accounts, then you have 2 different User ID's.   Ultimately, when you get this straightened out, make a note somewhere of your 2 User ID's.   If one of your user ID's is an email address, then the other User ID would have to be either a second email address, part of an email address, or some other thing entirely.  For that reason, phone number is usually the best thing to try first.  If necessary, see the "Try Something Else" method mentioned below.   After that, if no luck, we can tell you how to phone TurboTax Support, and they can look up your info.

 

When you used the Account Recovery tool, did you do this first?

 

Before running the account recovery tool below, log out of all Intuit accounts including this user forum, or you might end up in a loop.  Then clear your browser Internet cache, close your browser, then reopen it, and go to the link below.  You may wish to copy this link so you can paste it into the new browser session.

https://myturbotax.intuit.com/account-recovery

 

Phone number is best to try first.   And if it failed with your phone number you can still access or email addresses you can still access, did you try to look it up this way?


If still no luck after running that on your phone number you can still access and email address(es) that you can access,  here's another method.    Again do the clearing methods discussed above before trying this, then go directly to:

https://myturbotax.intuit.com/account-recovery

This time leave the data field blank, scroll down a bit, then choose the small blue link that says "Try something else", and it will look you up by other parameters such as SSN, DOB, etc.

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