Learn which situations may require an IRS tax transcript, along with how to request your tax transcript, and how to interpret it. Do you need information from a tax return you filed three years ago ...

You'd like to buckle down and do your income taxes. Really, you would. But you're missing one key form: last year's federal income tax return. But wait? It will cost you $30 to get an actual copy?

While it's a good idea to hang onto your tax returns after you file them, there's another recourse if you don't have access to actual copies of your return: the tax transcript. A tax transcript is a ...