Traditional Printed Return

A traditional printed return has some advantages over the other ways of filing:

• It is familiar.
• It is detailed. It contains official IRS text. Reviewing a printed return from a prior year is easy — you look at your return and identify your income and deductions.
• A traditional return is useful when you have to provide your tax return to others for, say, financial aid applications or home mortgage applications.
• No matter which filing method you use to submit your return to the IRS, it makes sense to print a traditional return for your records. You just never know when you might need it!

To file your return using the traditional printing method see the printing forms instructions.