Does anyone know???

[dianeschlicht]

How can you get a copy of your tax return if it is lost? DS needs his for financial aid for college. He is 27 and finally decided he needs to go! (yeah!) He moved recently, and his 2001 tax returns are lost. He can't get the ade package without it. Does the IRS have a way to relay that information to you?

 

[Doctor P]

Good question, Diane. I'm a nonpracticing CPA and I didn't know the answer off the top of my head and did some digging and was still unable to find an answer. I will try to check with a couple of my friends to see if they know, but in any case post an answer if you get one. I'm curious.

 

[dianeschlicht]

I asked this on the riddle this morning too, and Pumba said we should be able to go to the IRS office and have them print it off their computers. I hope that is right!

 

[Tigger]

This tells you the two ways to get a copy of your tax return. http://www.irs.gov/faqs/display/0,,i1=54&genericId=15869,00.html

 

[JasonLyons]

I had to get some olds ones from the IRS one time, I needed 4 of them and they found 3

 

[browneyes]

Did he do them himself, or did he have them done by someplace like H&R Block?

 

[dianeschlicht]

We did them on our computer program and filed them over the phone, I think. I don't know if that complicates things or not. I think I will send him down to the IRS office and have him inquire there first. He is currently unemployed, so don't know what bearing that has either.

 

[honeywolf7]

The unemployed part will come in after you file for financial aid....He can tell the college/university that his financial circumstances have changed a great deal since he filed his last tax return...he'll probably have to prove it but they do make adjustments for that sort of thing all the time.

 

[dianeschlicht]

Thanks for the advice. I think I will print a copy of this thread to give him.

 

[janette]

Is the program still on your computer? I print hard copies but I can also go back to the program and pull up the return. As long as it was saved it should still be there.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Diane, off the tax return topic, but still on financial aid, I found this book, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...2354946/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/104-9531474-2044707 to be invaluable when applying for Vince when he was attending college. I bought the new edition each year, as the forms and some rules keep changing. Much of my daily practice inolves college funding, and I still thought it to be a valuable resource. Just an FYI. Good luck to your son and great to hear he is going.

 

[dianeschlicht]

No, it's not in the computer. We looked there first.
Thanks for the headsup, Dan. Sometimes the aid for adult indepedant students is quite different from those just out of high school. I am hoping he might quailify for a Pell Grant.