TTax for 2008?

Reinstall you TT 2008 program. If you can't, find a version on EBAY or Amazon and buy it.

-----Original Message----- From: Stubby [mailto: snipped-for-privacy@alum.mit.edu] Posted At: Monday, October 04, 2010 9:07 AM Posted To: alt.comp.software.financial.quicken Conversation: TTax for 2008? Subject: TTax for 2008?

The IRS is auditing my return for 2008. I have my TurboTax file for that year but the current TTax can't read it. Does anyone know of a converter? Or, is there a site with old TTax programs held for this sort of purpose? TIA

I always save my old TurboTax programs for several years just in case I need them for that reason.

Perhaps you can find a nearby friend who, like me, has an old copy.

Did you perhaps "print" and save the PDF of the entire return with all supporting and non-filing documents to your harddrive as well as print to real paper (or perhaps e-filed?). If so, you probably don't need to get the software. If not, sorry for mentioning this, but perhaps you might think about doing so in the future.

Old news maybe and slightly off-topic but...

I'm surprised your experiments lead you to conclude "... only have one version of TTax loaded... " meant you couldn't have multiple versions installed. I have all Taxcuts installed since Ty 1995 when I began using it. I install each year into its own [default] directory yada yada yada and have never bothered uninstalling a prior year - no need to. I'm sure that I've had more than one year's TC program up and running at the same time because it would be more convenient than fetching printed copies. I have to believe that TurboTax behaves in a similar fashion. However, if your practice has been to install TT into the same directory all the time then, of course, you can only ever that one. Geo.

I currently have at least 3 versions of TT installed, TT2007, 2008, and

I routinely will have, for example. tax returns for 2008 and 2009 simultaneously open.

?Hi, Stubby.

I'm glad your "storm has passed". Yes, the IRS also makes mistakes sometimes. ;^} But, with modern computer filing, all the 1099 info should have been matched automatically. I hope it was entered properly in your TurboTax - but that's what would be revealed if you could re-examine your original filing.

While I haven't tried it in recent tears, I'm pretty sure that we CAN have multiple years of TTax installed, but it takes some mild trickery, such as installing them in multiple folders.

TRUE! And this is NOT Intuit's fault. In near-annual debates in this NG, I've often pointed out that accounting rules change slowly, gradually, and almost any version of Quicken can be used for many years - almost indefinitely. But tax rules change at least annually, and often more frequently as Congress, the IRS, and hundreds of courts make new laws and new interpretations of those laws. And the IRS revises forms annually, so that what was line 40 last year might be line 42(a) this year (purely made-up by me, so don't look for those lines on your return). This means that last year's TTax would miscalculate this year's numbers, or put them in the wrong place, even if they are the right numbers. In the olden days of pencil and paper returns, we would often use a prior year form and just cross out the wrong dates and squeeze new info in somewhere; we can't do that anymore.

(In a recent clean-up frenzy, I gave away all my older Quicken disks, etc., but I kept my original TTax versions all the way back to ChipSoft's 1989 edition. I still have the 2000 and later versions - program files and data - on my hard disk, but I'm sure they would have to be re-installed to be usable again. Luckily, I have plenty of HDD space at this time.)

Ah, but all recent TTax versions can prepare Form 1040X, Amended Individual Income Tax Return! I've used this feature more than once and it works well. Just remember that the amended return is a "differential" form: We put in only the amounts and other facts that have changed from the originally filed form. The 1040X usually is only a page or two, even if the original 1040 was an inch thick. TTax for 2009 can easily prepare a 1040X for 2008 - or an earlier year.

RC

I currently have TT 2006-2009 installed. I just brought up my 2008 tax return. In the past, when I was audited, I was able to create an amended return from a prior year.

Your experiments seem faulty.

I agree RC.

I installed TT (and for the past several years TaxCut) in different directories. TTax03, TTax04, etc. I've kept those directories over the years.

Also the annual changes would make it prohibitively expensive (and bloated) for the vendors' software to always be backward compatible for many years.

There's another problem not addressed though. I recently upgraded to Win7 64 bit. Had to reload old copies. Some wouldn't install. Several others had multiple in place on-line updates to capture late fiddling in Congress. It used to be that you could download (and save) the program updates. Doesn't happen that way any longer. Even tried to overlay the old directories with little success.

I was able to restart and successfully update 2007, 2008, and 2009. So I have a couple of year gap.

Good thing I'm anal and print everything out as well. Since the vendors starting leveraging .pdf copies I've been putting an extra backup in the safe deposit box. I also have a good retirement project planned -- scan all past returns and save as .pdf's.

slb never a cpa, but worked as a technology consultant for two Big 8 firms not quite retired (although the retirement investments are looking very good again) using quicken premier 2008 and still love it - export to xl for reporting