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posted Jun 6, 2019 12:54:59 AM

Having trouble with signing with using my first name which includes an apostrophe.

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New Member
Jun 6, 2019 12:54:59 AM

The IRS recommends omitting the apostrophe, and entering your name with no spaces: 

The only characters allowed are alpha, ampersand (&), hyphen (-), less-than sign (<), and space. The left-most position must be an alpha character. The less-than sign replaces the intervening space to identify the primary taxpayer's last name. It cannot be preceded by or followed by a space. 

 2. All apostrophes (') and any other punctuation characters, except the hyphen (-), must be omitted from names and the alphabetic characters shifted to the left in their place. Example: O'Shea = OSHEA

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p4164.pdf