This article was co-authored by Keila Hill-Trawick, CPA and by wikiHow staff writer, Jennifer Mueller, JD. Keila Hill-Trawick is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and owner at Little Fish Accounting, a CPA firm for small businesses in Washington, District of Columbia. With over 15 years of experience in accounting, Keila specializes in advising freelancers, solopreneurs, and small businesses in reaching their financial goals through tax preparation, financial accounting, bookkeeping, small business tax, financial advisory, and personal tax planning services. Keila spent over a decade in the government and private sector before founding Little Fish Accounting. She holds a BS in Accounting from Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of Business and an MBA from Mercer University - Stetson School of Business and Economics.
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If you need tax return information, you can get a tax return transcript from the IRS at no charge. Simply provide the IRS with basic identification information, such as your name and Social Security number, and let them know what years you need transcripts for. While a tax return transcript includes much of the same information you entered on your tax returns, the way it's formatted is much different. [1] X Expert Source
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Certified Public Accountant Expert Interview. 30 July 2020. You can read a tax return transcript by comparing the transcript descriptions with a blank return to locate specific lines. [2] X Trustworthy Source Internal Revenue Service U.S. government agency in charge of managing the Federal Tax Code Go to source