Retrieve a tax return
Retrieves a single extracted tax return. Requesting a document of any other type returns a 404.
Requires the extractions:read scope. Rate limit: 200 requests per minute per key (the api lane).
Authentication
Bearer token. Use ss_live_… for live data or ss_test_… for the sandbox (test mode). See Authentication.
Path parameters
Headers
Pin the API version, e.g. 2026-10-07. Omit to get the latest. See Versioning.
Response headers
The API surface version the server resolved for this request. Always present, regardless of whether the client supplied the request-side SpreadSpace-Version header. Default: 2026-10-07.
Request budget of the endpoint’s rate-limit policy per 60-second sliding window. See Rate limits.
Requests left in the current window. Suppressed on 429 responses produced outside the rate limiter (for example a usage throttle), where a remaining budget would be misleading.
Seconds until a guaranteed-fresh window.
The active policy in limit;w=window-seconds form.
Response
A Form 1040 individual return. A return printed on the senior form is the Form 1040-SR branch.
A Form 6252, installment sale income, uploaded on its own; the first copy when the upload prints several.
A Form 8990, limitation on business interest expense under section 163(j), uploaded on its own.
A Form 1120-S S corporation return.
A Form 1040-SR, the individual return printed on the senior form. Its lines are the Form 1040’s.
A Schedule K-1 (Form 1065) uploaded on its own.
A Schedule K-1 (Form 1120-S) uploaded on its own.
A Schedule K (Form 1065), partners’ distributive share items, uploaded on its own.
A Schedule B (Form 1065), other information, uploaded on its own.
A Schedule L (Form 1065), balance sheets per books, uploaded on its own, with any schedule its page also prints.
A Schedule M-1 (Form 1065), reconciliation of income per books with income per return, uploaded on its own, with any schedule its page also prints.
A Schedule M-2 (Form 1065), analysis of partners’ capital accounts, uploaded on its own, with any schedule its page also prints.
A Schedule M-3 (Form 1065), net income reconciliation for large partnerships, uploaded on its own.
A Schedule D (Form 1065), capital gains and losses, uploaded on its own.
A Schedule K (Form 1120-S), shareholders’ pro rata share items, uploaded on its own.
A Schedule L (Form 1120-S), balance sheets per books, uploaded on its own, with any schedule its page also prints.
A Schedule M-1 (Form 1120-S), reconciliation of income per books with income per return, uploaded on its own, with any schedule its page also prints.
A Schedule M-2 (Form 1120-S), analysis of the accumulated adjustments account and the other equity accounts, uploaded on its own, with any schedule its page also prints.
A Schedule M-3 (Form 1120-S), net income reconciliation for large S corporations, uploaded on its own.
A Schedule B (Form 1120-S), other information, uploaded on its own, with any schedule its page also prints.
A Schedule D (Form 1120-S), capital gains and losses and built-in gains, uploaded on its own.
A Schedule J (Form 1120), tax computation and payment, uploaded on its own.
A Schedule K (Form 1120), other information, uploaded on its own.
A Schedule L (Form 1120), balance sheets per books, uploaded on its own, with any schedule its page also prints.
A Schedule M-1 (Form 1120), reconciliation of income per books with income per return, uploaded on its own, with any schedule its page also prints.
A Schedule M-2 (Form 1120), analysis of unappropriated retained earnings per books, uploaded on its own, with any schedule its page also prints.
A Schedule M-3 (Form 1120), net income reconciliation for large corporations, uploaded on its own.
A Schedule D (Form 1120), capital gains and losses, uploaded on its own.
A Form 1125-E, compensation of officers, uploaded on its own.
A Form 1125-A, cost of goods sold, uploaded on its own.
A Schedule 1 (Form 1040), additional income and adjustments to income, uploaded on its own.
A Schedule 2 (Form 1040), additional taxes, uploaded on its own.
A Schedule 3 (Form 1040), additional credits and payments, uploaded on its own.
A Schedule C (Form 1040), profit or loss from business, uploaded on its own.
A Schedule D (Form 1040), capital gains and losses, uploaded on its own.
A Schedule E (Form 1040), supplemental income and loss, uploaded on its own.
A Schedule F (Form 1040), profit or loss from farming, uploaded on its own.
A Schedule SE (Form 1040), self-employment tax, uploaded on its own.
A Schedule A (Form 1040), itemized deductions, uploaded on its own.
A Schedule B (Form 1040), interest and ordinary dividends, uploaded on its own.
A Form 6198, at-risk limitations, uploaded on its own.