tax files for returns earlier than 2010- see my latest post, Lessons from the cloud: How I got my TurboTax data back. UPDATE: 12/7/11 - TurboTax is now making changes and will start archiving tax data files for tax years 2010 and later, according to Bob Meighan, vice president, TurboTax. That would make for a very Merry Christmas indeed. "But I'll give 2:1 odds that it will be there." On the one hand, Intuit never even kept old returns online before last year, he added. I'm not guaranteeing it," the support technician said. Last Friday was November 25th, so I'll be checking in again right about December 25th. Wait until about a month after that happens, he advised, and then check back. The 2011 version of TurboTax was slated to go online last Friday. Apparently the data has been pulled off the site before, only to reappear again later. Or am I? Last week a helpful support technician at Intuit suggested that I wait and see if the 2009 data miraculously reappears. And bring back the old tax returns, please.īut for 2009 I guess am out of luck. Going forward it would be helpful if TurboTax 2011 would automatically offer to save the user's work in both PDF and. But you can check by going to the folder where you saved it and looking to see if the file name ends with the. The solution is to go to the Home tab, and select "Save return to computer." TurboTax won't tell you that it is saving your return as a data file rather than as a PDF. According to TurboTax technical support, saving the return from the File tab or from the Print and Save tab will just create a PDF. While there are several places in the program where you can choose to save your return to your local computer, only one of those saves it as a data file - and it doesn't tell you that's what it's doing. What's especially bothersome is the fact that TurboTax Online doesn't publicize the fact that you can - and should - save a local copy of the data file as well as a PDF version, especially if Intuit does not plan to archive the data file for you. But if you choose to use it you should make darned sure you download that data file. I am not saying that users should abandon TurboTax Online. The entire creation process is visible to you. If you need to you can go back and review all of the inputs you made that resulted in the finished return. On the other hand, if you buy TurboTax software for your PC, at the end of the day you have both the tax return data file and the software that created it. Did most of them think to back up the data file, or even know how to do it if they did think about it? Probably not. According to a recent Wall Street Journal story, 24 million people used TurboTax last year to file their taxes, and most of them used the online version. I am surely not the only one in this boat. Using TurboTax to recreate your original return so that every number matches up exactly can be a time consuming experience, especially if your taxes are at all complicated. Yes, I have the hard copy of the return itself, but how I got there, that's the rub. Think about the process you went through to create your original return, the answers to all of the questions. This may not sound like a big deal until you have to do it. The consequence of not saving that data file is that I may have to recreate my 2009 return from scratch. If you're going to use TurboTax Online you need to know how to do this. And while there is a way to do so, it's not obvious that's what you're doing - at least in the 2010 version. It does not prompt you to save the return as a data file. But while TurboTax Online does prompt users to download a copy of their tax return when you file, it saves the return as a PDF. TurboTax does not store online any returns completed using the desktop editions.That would be OK if TurboTax Online had prompted me to save a local copy of the data file when I created it. 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. Trusted by millions of Canadians for over 20 years. New to Intuit Create an account Canada's 1 Tax Software. Learn more Phone number, email or user ID By clicking Sign In, you accept the Terms of service. Click on the Year and Click on Download/print return (PDF) TurboTax Canada Online Login: Sign in to continue your tax return Missed the tax deadline Use your Intuit Account to sign in. Scroll down to the section Your tax returns & documents. To access your prior year online tax returns sign onto the TurboTax website with the User ID you used to create the account. You can download a PDF of the tax returns yourself. TurboTax cannot mail or email your tax returns to you. You send me my filed copy of the 2020 tax return please? please send to
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