How do I find last year’s AGI?The IRS requires your 2018 AGI to verify your identity for e-filing. If you're paper-filing your return, you won't need your AGI because those are manually processed. There are a few places you can get your 2018 AGI: If you filed your 2018 taxes with TurboTax, sign in and go down to Your tax returns & documents. Select View adjusted gross income (AGI).If you didn’t file your taxes with TurboTax in 2018, the best place to get last year's AGI is from the 1040 form you filed with the IRS. Look on page 2, line 7. If you filed a 1040NR, it'll be on line 35.If you're having trouble locating your 2018 return, the second-best place to get your AGI is from the IRS. You can order a free transcript of your return at the IRS Get Transcript site or you can purchase a full copy of your 2018 return. Both versions will include your AGI.If you didn't file a 2018 federal tax return (or you haven't filed one yet), enter 0 as your AGI. Married Filing Separately in 2018 but filing jointly in 2019? Filed jointly in 2018 but are Married Filing Separately in 2019? You won't find your AGI on your W-2 or 1099 form because those forms don't take into account over a dozen above-the-line deductions that go into calculating your AGI.

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Best answer by bluedeb

How do I find last year’s AGI?

The IRS requires your 2018 AGI to verify your identity for e-filing. If you're paper-filing your return, you won't need your AGI because those are manually processed.

There are a few places you can get your 2018 AGI:

If you filed your 2018 taxes with TurboTax, sign in and go down to Your tax returns & documents. Select View adjusted gross income (AGI).
If you didn’t file your taxes with TurboTax in 2018, the best place to get last year's AGI is from the 1040 form you filed with the IRS. Look on page 2, line 7. If you filed a 1040NR, it'll be on line 35.
If you're having trouble locating your 2018 return, the second-best place to get your AGI is from the IRS. You can order a free transcript of your return at the IRS Get Transcript site or you can purchase a full copy of your 2018 return. Both versions will include your AGI.

If you didn't file a 2018 federal tax return (or you haven't filed one yet), enter 0 as your AGI.

Married Filing Separately in 2018 but filing jointly in 2019?

Filed jointly in 2018 but are Married Filing Separately in 2019?

You won't find your AGI on your W-2 or 1099 form because those forms don't take into account over a dozen above-the-line deductions that go into calculating your AGI.

bluedebAnswer

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How do I find last year’s AGI?

The IRS requires your 2018 AGI to verify your identity for e-filing. If you're paper-filing your return, you won't need your AGI because those are manually processed.

There are a few places you can get your 2018 AGI:

If you filed your 2018 taxes with TurboTax, sign in and go down to Your tax returns & documents. Select View adjusted gross income (AGI).
If you didn’t file your taxes with TurboTax in 2018, the best place to get last year's AGI is from the 1040 form you filed with the IRS. Look on page 2, line 7. If you filed a 1040NR, it'll be on line 35.
If you're having trouble locating your 2018 return, the second-best place to get your AGI is from the IRS. You can order a free transcript of your return at the IRS Get Transcript site or you can purchase a full copy of your 2018 return. Both versions will include your AGI.

If you didn't file a 2018 federal tax return (or you haven't filed one yet), enter 0 as your AGI.

Married Filing Separately in 2018 but filing jointly in 2019?

Filed jointly in 2018 but are Married Filing Separately in 2019?

You won't find your AGI on your W-2 or 1099 form because those forms don't take into account over a dozen above-the-line deductions that go into calculating your AGI.

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rlmcortez

I need to get my bank information off my 2018 return

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mesquitebean

Employee

@rlmcortez wrote:
I need to get my bank information off my 2018 return

If your 2018 returns were prepared in Online TurboTax, log into your account and at the Tax Home scroll down and expand the section "Your Tax Returns & Documents". Choose tax year 2018, and then click "Download/print the PDF". If you can't find your 2018 return there, then you likely have multiple accounts and signed into the wrong one. Many people end up with multiple accounts without realizing it. Here's how to troubleshoot for multiple accounts (User IDs) :

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 and recover account access, you can use the tool at the link below. When using the Account Recovery tool, try using your phone number first. 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 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, and choose the small blue link that says "Try something else", and it will look you up by SSN and other parameters.

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JotikaT2

It depends upon what you are trying to do.

You cannot prepare your 2018 tax return using the online software. The online software is only for 2019 tax returns.

I have attached a link with instructions on how to obtain the 2018 program so you can prepare your 2018 tax return.

How to prepare a prior year tax return

If you are trying to obtain your information from your 2018 return, you can use the links below to obtain that information.

You can log into TurboTax if you used the software in the past and log in to obtain the returns.
- Accessing prior year returns in TurboTax
The other option is to order copies or transcripts from the IRS.
- Requesting copies of prior returns from the IRS

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rhallagin28

hello there and I just completed my taxes for 2019 and its asking me for my AGI for 2018. will you please send me last years transcript and any if not all info I need to complete this e-file. thank you in advance

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mesquitebean

Employee

@ rhallagin28 wrote:
hello there and I just completed my taxes for 2019 and its asking me for my AGI for 2018. will you please send me last years transcript and any if not all info I need to complete this e-file. thank you in advance

This is a user community forum, but TurboTax Support cannot send you anything. Why are you unable to look at your 2018 return? If it was prepared with TurboTax, we can tell you how to find it.

See the following FAQ and video:

FAQ: How do I find last year's AGI?

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/agi/help/how-do-i-find-last-year-s-agi/00/25947

If you used Online TurboTax last year, log in, and at the Tax Home scroll down to "Your Tax Returns & Documents." Expand that section and choose tax year 2018. Then look for a link "Download/print the PDF" or "View adjusted gross income (AGI.)"

If you're not able to find the 2018 online return in that same account you're using for 2019, we can tell you how to look for multiple accounts.