@eerickso1464 wrote:
One would think it also should be easy enough to allow for the taxpayer to use the PIN from last year rather than forcing either the use of the AGI which it fails to accept or mailing in the tax forms.
TurboTax does not reject returns - the IRS does, and the IRS no longer used pins as verification - only 2019 AGI now. The current PIN is only your electronic signature (the same a pen and ink on a paper return), not your last year identification.
(As an aside - years ago the IRS has such a high rejection with incorrect AGI's, both on the taxpayers side and in the IRS database, that they started using self-selected PINS that you would register for on a IRS website. Hackers and ID thieves figured out ways to bypass the IRS security, so two years ago, because of fraud, the IRS discontinued the PIN - so now we are back to the very unreliable and error prone AGI method with all it's problems.)
**Disclaimer: This post is for discussion purposes only and is NOT tax advice. The author takes no responsibility for the accuracy of any information in this post.**
