Extract text from 2015 tax returns (TAX2015)
To convert TAX2015 tax returns to another format, you need Intuit TurboTax or other Data software.
To convert other file formats to the "TurboTax Tax Return" file type, you need software like Intuit TurboTax or a similar tool.
The .tax2015 file is a specialized data container created by the 2015 desktop edition of Intuit TurboTax to store a user's United States federal and state tax return data. It contains raw financial inputs, personal information, and software state data for that specific tax year.
To open, edit, or officially print these files, users must install the exact 2015 version of the TurboTax desktop software.
Users typically need to convert this file when applying for mortgages, securing loans, or responding to IRS audits years later. The primary disadvantage of the .tax2015 format is severe vendor lock-in. It is a proprietary, version-specific file; you cannot open a 2015 return in newer versions of TurboTax. Furthermore, Intuit aggressively retires and stops selling older software, essentially turning these tax files into inaccessible orphans on your hard drive.
The most requested target format is a standard PDF document. Unfortunately, a direct conversion to an official IRS-formatted PDF is impossible without the original software engine to map the data to the correct forms. If raw data extraction is sufficient, you can target ZIP, XML, or TXT formats, though you will lose all official IRS formatting.
This file format is exceptionally difficult to open or convert because it is a closed system designed to force reliance on Intuit's ecosystem. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data into a usable tax form. Because our analysis detects that .tax2015 is structurally a standard ZIP archive containing XML data, viewing or extracting the raw financial data may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TAX2015 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted TAX2016, TAX2019 and TAX2017 files.
If you want to convert TAX2015 file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Intuit TurboTax or similar software from the "Tax Return Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to TAX2015, try Intuit TurboTax or another comparable tool in the "Tax Return Data Storage" category.
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