Seven separate scares would make this feel worse than it is. One pile, with a bottom you can point at, is the truer picture.
Each year is a band of the same kind. A transcript, the forms it lists, the records you still have, and then the return. Repeating that shape is how the pile stays finite.
The oldest year goes at the bottom, and the hour starts there. A newer letter can be noted without letting it jump the line. People lose the bottom year when a story says only the recent ones matter.
That story is not the order. The stack is the order. You should be able to count the bands and see the last one.
Putting the years into one stack and preparing them is the work this address does. Answering a levy, a lien or a deficiency notice on your behalf is representative work that belongs with a firm that does it, and bargaining a balance down is not something that happens here. No CPA license sits at this desk, so signed reports on statements go elsewhere too. All of that is spelled out at more length on the disclosures page.
You are allowed to exhale when you can count them. The work is still real. It is no longer a fog.
Write the years in a column, oldest at the bottom. Bring that column if you want it read with you.
Oldest at the bottom, even if the handwriting is rough.
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.