Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TAX2014 file.
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Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert TAX2014 to another file type
To convert your TAX2014 file to another format, you need TurboTax or other Data software.
Convert a file to TAX2014
To convert other file formats to the "Tax Return File" file type, you need software like TurboTax or a similar tool.
About TAX2014 files
A .TAX2014 file is a tax return created specifically by the 2014 edition of Intuit TurboTax. It contains personal financial data, income records, and deduction information relevant to the 2014 United States tax year. The catch with these files is proprietary version lock-in; they typically cannot be opened by modern versions of TurboTax (e.g., the 2024 or 2025 software) nor by standard text editors. Users often find themselves unable to view their old tax returns because they no longer have the specific 2014 software installed or the installation media is obsolete. Additionally, while some of these files utilize a ZIP container structure, the internal data is often obfuscated or proprietary XML that renders raw extraction useless for human reading. For long-term access and auditing purposes, the best practice is to convert these proprietary data files into PDF documents, which ensures the tax return looks exactly as filed and can be opened on any device without specific software. For transferring data to financial software, converting to TXF (Tax Exchange Format) is occasionally used, though less common for purely archival needs.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TAX2014 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert TAX2014 file to XLS, XLSX, XLSM, XLSB, ODS, CSV, TSV, TAB, DIF, SLK, WK1 or WK3, you can use TurboTax or similar software from the "2014 Tax Return Data" 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 TAX2014, try TurboTax or another comparable tool in the "2014 Tax Return Data" category.
The TAX2014 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 TAX2014 converter.