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March 27, 2022
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Does Turbo Tax not provide the Electronic Filling Instructions for you XXXX Tax Return anymore? Provided it in 2020.

  • March 27, 2022
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They included it in my total tax return printable tax package last year but nothing this year.  Also, disappointed they didn't provide the side by side comparison as they have done in years past.

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Employee
March 27, 2022

@librada_colon wrote:
Does Turbo Tax not provide the Electronic Filling Instructions for you XXXX Tax Return anymore? Provided it in 2020.
They included it in my total tax return printable tax package last year but nothing this year.  Also, disappointed they didn't provide the side by side comparison as they have done in years past.

You appear to be using Online TurboTax.  Are you trying to print/download your 2021 return at the Tax Home page?   If so, it may not be complete.   I'll tell you how to get all the worksheets, summary sheets, two-year comparison, etc., and hopefully, the filing instructions.

Have you already efiled?  If so, and if the efile has been accepted, the steps below should also include the electronic postmark.

 

Here's an alternative way to get the larger PDF by opening the filed return back up to download/print at the Print Center inside the return.

 

NOTE:  When you open your return back up, do not make any changes in it if it's already been filed.  If you later have to amend the return, it has to start off exactly as it was when it was originally filed.

 

  • Log in and at the Tax Home or in the section "Your Tax Returns & Documents" for 2021, look for a link "Add a State."
  • Click on "Add a State."  (you don't really add one.  That's just to open your return back up.)
  • After the return is open, click in the left menu column on TAX TOOLS, then PRINT CENTER.
  • Then choose "Print, save, view this year's return."
  • The next screen should offer some options:  "Just my tax returns", or "include government worksheets (optional)", or "include government and TurboTax worksheets (optional.)"
  •  The latter has the most pages.


NOTE:  Remember all PDF tax documents and tax data files are very sensitive files, since they contain your personal ID info, financial data, and possibly bank account numbers, etc.  Be sure to store them safely and securely to guard against computer theft, hacking, etc.

March 27, 2022

@mesquitebean Those options do not come up when I go through the method you described which is what I did before posting my question.

Employee
March 27, 2022

@ librada_colon wrote:

Those options do not come up when I go through the method you described which is what I did before posting my question.


 

Sorry, but we don't have any way of knowing what you tried before you posted your question.   Also we don't know "where" the roadblock is without more info.    Please walk me through the steps you used and where it fails.

 

What is the status of your 2021 return?  Was it already efiled and accepted?

Or is it not yet filed and has not yet been paid for?