- Access Prior-Year Tax Returns
Access Prior-Year Tax Returns
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What would you like to do?
Customers frequently need access to their prior-year tax return to obtain their AGI (Adjusted Gross Income) for e-filing or for federal student aid applications.
Which version of TurboTax did you use to prepare your prior-year tax return?
- TurboTax Online
- TurboTax Desktop Software (CD or download)
To find your 2008 tax return, log into your TurboTax Online account. Currently, you cannot access your TY08 tax return through the TurboTax Welcome screen link or the estore link.As long as you completed a prior-year tax return using TurboTax Online, we'll store a PDF copy of your tax return on our secure server, which you can access by logging into your TurboTax account.
Here's the quickest way to get to your prior-tax year PDF file:
- Go to the 2008 tax return page (even if you're not doing a 2008 tax return using TurboTax Online).
- Enter your user ID and password, then click Sign In. (Get help with user ID, password or email.)
- On the Welcome Back screen, click View your returns from prior years.
- If you don't see your prior-year tax return, you may have done your taxes using a different user ID and password. Get help with user ID, password or email.
- If all else fails, please see IRS Tax Topic 156 for instructions on requesting a copy of your tax return from the IRS.
We do not maintain copies of your tax return prepared using TurboTax desktop software, not even if it was e-filed. E-filing does not store tax return data on our servers.
You'll need to search your computer for your tax return file if it was prepared using a desktop version. Follow our instructions for Windows or Macintosh.
Then open your tax return in the same tax-year version of TurboTax (for example, open your 2007 return in TurboTax 2007). If you try to open it in the wrong tax year, you'll get error code 539.
- If you can't find your prior-year TurboTax CD, we'll replace it.
- If you need to re-download a prior-year version of TurboTax, sign into your account below. (You can download software as many times as needed up to 3 years after purchase.)
- If all else fails, please see IRS Tax Topic 156 for instructions on requesting a copy of your tax return from the IRS.
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- If you used TurboTax for Windows desktop software to prepare your 2007 taxes, you can transfer your data to:
- If you used TurboTax for Mac desktop software to prepare 2007 taxes, you can transfer your data to:
- If you used TurboTax Online to prepare your 2007 taxes, you can transfer your data to:
- If you used TaxCut to prepare your 2007 taxes, you can transfer your data to:
- If you used TaxACT to prepare your 2007 taxes, you can transfer your data to TurboTax 2008 for Windows.
