@JoeyMick65 wrote:
I have a PIN from tax year 2020, is this the same for this year. It was sent January 4th, 2021
If you are referring to a 6-digit IP PIN (Identity Protection PIN) provided by the IRS to certain victims of ID theft or to folks who voluntarily opt-in to that program, a new IP PIN is required every calendar year for all returns filed during that calendar year. An IP PIN from January 2021 would be an old IP PIN and would not work for any return filed this calendar year.
So for any return filed in calendar year 2022 (including the current 2021 return) you need a new IP PIN. Did you not get a letter from the IRS in late December 2021 or January 2022 with your new IP PIN to use this year? If not, I've mentioned below how to retrieve the new IP PIN.
NOTE: If you opted-in voluntarily to that IP PIN program, the IRS apparently doesn't automatically send a letter in subsequent years. Instead filers who opted-in to that program have to retrieve the IP PIN each year at the IRS website.
In either case, here's how to retrieve your IP PIN to be used this calendar year.
https://www.irs.gov/identity-theft-fraud-scams/retrieve-your-ip-pin
If you don't have an IRS account and can't establish one (or don't want to), you can phone the IRS number shown on that page for the special IRS identity protection unit, and if they can identify you, they will send the IP PIN by postal mail within 21 days.
