Practice Lab 2026 is now live! Please keep in mind that the Practice Lab will be updated twice a week as we receive finalized forms and instructions from the IRS. With that, we ask volunteers to not report calculation issues to support. We also ask to not report forms where the PDF may still display 2025 instead of 2026.
With the Practice Lab 2026 release, you will have access to PL 2026 and PL 2025.
When you log in to your Production Sites, you will see the following TaxSlayer 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021. You do not have the ability to create new returns in 2026, but you can still prepare returns in all of the available prior years. You will be able to electronically file 2025, 2024 and 2023 until the IRS shuts down their MeF system on December 26th.
States will not be available in Practice Lab 2026 until closer to the filing season in early January. You can use PL 2025 to have your volunteers train or practice with state returns.