Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TAX2017 file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert TAX2017 to another file type
To convert your TAX2017 file to another format, you need TurboTax or other Data software.
Convert a file to TAX2017
To convert other file formats to the "Tax Return File" file type, you need software like TurboTax or a similar tool.
About TAX2017 files
A .tax2017 file is a proprietary data container generated by Intuit TurboTax specifically for the 2017 tax year. While the internal structure is technically a ZIP archive containing XML data, these files are designed to be read exclusively by the 2017 edition of the software. Users typically encounter severe friction when trying to open these files today because the required legacy software is often lost, uninstalled, or incompatible with modern operating systems (like Windows 11 or macOS Sonoma). Furthermore, unlike a standard document, you cannot simply double-click to read the contents. For practical long-term access, the standard solution is to convert the .tax2017 data into a PDF document. This ensures your financial history is preserved in a human-readable, universal format that doesn't require hunting down a decade-old installation CD or paying for a software subscription just to view a single page.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TAX2017 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert TAX2017 file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use 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 TAX2017, try TurboTax or another comparable tool in the "Tax Return Data Storage" category.
The TAX2017 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 TAX2017 converter.