What is a TAX2019 File Type?
Only if you are using the desktop version of TurboTax in Windows or MacOS to prepare your taxes will you likely find a TAX2019 file. To open a TAX2019 file in the office version of TurboTax select File → Open Tax Return, choose the TAX2019 file, and then click Open.
When you export tax information from TurboTax Online, you can also get a TAX2019 file. To export a TAX2019 file from TurboTax Online, click on Tax Tools → Tools select "Save your return 2019 on your computer, ", which starts downloading the TAX2019 file.tax2019.
After downloading the file TAX2019 you can open it with the office version of TurboTax. If, however, you make changes to the report in TurboTax Online, the changes are not synchronized with the TAX2019 file and must be re-exported.
If you have a .TAX2018 file prepared by the 2018 version of TurboTax, you can l' import in the 2019 version of TurboTax. To do this, select a tax return that appears on my computer when you first click on the prompts at the beginning of the tax return process and select the TAX2018 file.
Generally, TAX2019 files are created in 2020, since annual income tax returns are filed for the previous year.