irs-drt-transcripts

If an undergraduate applicant’s file is selected for verification, the applicant, parent, or spouse will need to request an IRS Tax Return Transcript from the Internal Revenue Service. Graduate applicants do not need to request their IRS Tax Return Transcript from the Internal Revenue Service unless expressly asked. The IRS Tax Return Transcript is different than the Tax Account Transcript. 

If an applicant had originally chosen not to use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool but is eligible to do so, they can log in and retrieve the actual IRS data and submit a correction to the FAFSA.  Using the IRS Data Retrieval Tool satisfies the need to order a transcript. Once the FAFSA correction is received and reviewed, the Tax Return Transcript request will be waived.