Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TA4 file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert TA4 to another file type
To convert TA4 tax returns to another format, you need TaxAct or other Data software.
Convert a file to TA4
To convert other file formats to the "Tax Return File" file type, you need software like TaxAct or a similar tool.
About TA4 files
The .TA4 file is a proprietary data container created by TaxAct, specifically used for storing 2014 tax return information. Users generate these files to save their federal and state tax return progress, financial inputs, and personal data locally on their hard drives. The primary disadvantage of the .TA4 format is its closed, proprietary nature. It is an undocumented data structure that prevents users from opening the file in a standard web browser, spreadsheet software, or text editor. This format essentially locks your historical financial data behind legacy software. Opening a 2014 tax file typically requires installing the exact 2014 version of the TaxAct desktop application, which can be difficult to run on modern operating systems and poses a risk to long-term data archiving. Users typically want to convert .TA4 files to PDF for easy reading or to CSV to migrate financial data to other systems. However, standard online converters fail to process this file because the internal structure is kept secret by the developer. Explain why this file format is difficult to open or convert. Emphasize that often only the original software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or text extraction may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TA4 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert TA4 file to XLS, XLSX, XLSM, XLSB, ODS, CSV, TSV, TAB, DIF, SLK, WK1 or WK3, you can use TaxAct or similar software from the "Tax Return Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert WQ1, XLSM, NOTES, QPW, WK3, WB2, WKS, XLSB, 123, XLS, WB1 or XLSX files to TA4, try TaxAct or another comparable tool in the "Tax Return Data Storage" category.
The TA4 Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our TA4 converter.