If you have a 6 digit PIN issued to you by the IRS you need to enter it in order to e-file. Go to Federal>Other Tax Situations>Other Return Info>Identity Protection PIN and enter the six-digit PIN.
As of 3/15/25, I found I could enter the six-digit IRS-issued identity protection pin in the federal information worksheet. I agree with others who have suggested that "other tax situations" is not an intuitive place to enter the information. And a phone call to Intuit to find the place to enter this information was not helpful.
I used a 5 digit code as self-direct PIN last year to file taxes. I recently obtained a 6-digit IRS PIN for filing taxes this year. Do I need to delete the 5 digit code before filing taxes this year?
@jay-gardner-jr wrote:
I used a 5 digit code as self-direct PIN last year to file taxes. I recently obtained a 6-digit IRS PIN for filing taxes this year. Do I need to delete the 5 digit code before filing taxes this year?
No. The 5 digit self-selected PIN for e-filing is required by TurboTax to be entered. Even when you have a 6 digit IP PIN you received from the IRS.
To enter, edit or delete a 6 digit IP PIN
Click on Federal Taxes (Personal using Home and Business)
Click on Other Tax Situations
Scroll down to Other Return Info
On Identity Protection PIN, click the start button
thanks to someone who told me where to input IP Pin in Personal using Home and Business.
This is not where you find it on Premium when filing both business and personal taxes. It is under Personal vs Federal. For anyone else scratching their head.
where do you enter your ip pin if you are using Turbo Tax desktop
The 6-digit Identity Protection PIN (IP PIN) is different from the 5-digit e-filing PIN, and is entered in a different place. Here's how to enter your IP PIN in TurboTax if you are e-filing.
This does not work at all. The search engine takes me online and loops me back to the search engine on the taxes that immediately takes me back online. Stuck in a loop WORTHLESS!
Federal>Other Tax Situations>Other Return Info>Identity Protection PIN and enter the six-digit PIN
THERE IS NO FEDERAL,
THERE IS NO OTHER TAX SITUATIONS
THERE IS NO OTHER RETURN INFO'THERE IS NO JUMP TO IP PIN
THERE IS NO PLACE TO ENTER THE PIN NIMBER FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
EVERY YEAR THIS GETS HARDER AND HARDER AND MORE FRUSTRATING AND YOU GUYS SCREW IT UP WORSE EVERY YEAR. WHEN I ASK THE ASSISTANT, IT SENDS ME HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHEN I CLICK ON SEARCH, IT SENDS ME HERE!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE AND YOUR IT?!?!?!!?!?!?
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS ADD A PLACE TO ENTER THIS AND FOR 6 YEARS YOU HAVE SCREWED IT UP AND MADE IT WORSE EVERY YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FIX THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I made you a screen shot. The Home & Business does not have Federal. It is broken out in Business & Personal tabs.
And here is how to get to the Jump link in my Home & Business version.
YOU ARE AWESOME!
But I found it on my own after searching every single page under alternative taxes.
I HAVE TO SAY THAT YOUR ANSWER WOULD HAVE SAVED ME A LOT OF TEMPER FIT AND THAT IF I HAD SEEN YOU ANSWER FIRST, YOU COULD HAVE SAVED ME HOURS OF SEARCHING. THEY NEED TO POST WHAT YOU HAVE ANSWERED AS THE FIRST ANSWER AVAILABLE! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MY VERSION DID NOT HAVE A JUMP TO IP. I TRIED IT AT LEAST 20 TIMES
I've been posting that on all your posts. The answers all say to go to
Federal (Personal in Home & Business)
Then to get the Jump to IP pin to show up......
There are 2 ways to search depending whether you are signed in or not. The IP pin search doesn't work if you are signed in. So first go to File and scroll down to Signed In as....... and click on it and sign out.
Then go up to Search, it will give you a box to sign in. Don't sign in, click the X to get rid of the box. Then you get the Search window where you can enter IP pin at the top.
Umm...yeah have read that sentence. Does not indicate where.
Any other ideas on how to describe this?
Just not seeing where to enter using the directions for "Other Situations" - Using Home & Business version desktop.
Thanks
Got it now - Chat GPT described it all. Thanks. Sorry - do not know how to delete this.
My IPPin is 6 digits, but the TurboTax 1040 form only allows 5 digits.Will my return be accepted?
When i entered my 5-digit PIN that I used on my 2023 Tax Return, it was rejected on the 2024 Tax Return. But, the TurboTax 1040 only allows me to enter a 5-digit PIN, and the IRS PIN is 6 digits. When I entered the first 5 digits of the 6-digit PIN, my return was rejected. So, how do I enter the 6 digit IRS PIN?
@ Babygal48
wrote:When i entered my 5-digit PIN that I used on my 2023 Tax Return, it was rejected on the 2024 Tax Return. But, the TurboTax 1040 only allows me to enter a 5-digit PIN, and the IRS PIN is 6 digits. When I entered the first 5 digits of the 6-digit PIN, my return was rejected. So, how do I enter the 6 digit IRS PIN?
You tried to enter it in the wrong place. The 6-digit IP PIN is entered in a completely different section of TurboTax. Here's the navigation:
If using Online TurboTax, go to the left column menu.
Federal tab (or the PERSONAL tab in Home and Business desktop)
Then select subtab Other Tax Situations
Then on next screen scroll down to Other Return Info
Expand that topic and choose Identity Protection PIN.
When efiling you will still need to enter a different kind of PIN in the FILE process--a 5-digit PIN on the Signature page to "sign" your return. It's on a signature screen with today's date and your birth date. Like it says there, those 5 digits can be any 5 digits of your choosing (except can't be all zeros.)
Thanks for clarifying that the "Federal tab" is non-existent when using the "Home & Business" desktop version of TTax. I read nearly a dozen "answers", asked that not-ready-for-prime-time 'virtual help', wasting WAY too much time. But your clarity brought it all together. Too bad the software didn't ask for the IP PIN before one files. I've been using TTax back when it was only known as "Mac 'n Tax", so I KNOW that I didn't see it. But thanks to someone like you that can actually SPELL IT OUT to we blurry-eyed, tired, tax filers, it is much appreciated.