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Level 1
posted Feb 17, 2025 11:08:07 AM

How do I enter my Federal Identity Protection PIN on my 1040

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Level 15
Feb 17, 2025 11:10:42 AM

 

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.

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Level 15
Feb 17, 2025 11:10:42 AM

 

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.

Level 1
Feb 20, 2025 4:25:27 AM

  • Thank you for the response which worked. For a company named Intuit, however, it's not very intuitive to find it under Other Taxes. It should be added to the Personal section at the beginning. That being said, thanks again.

Level 1
Mar 16, 2025 3:56:20 PM

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.   

Level 2
Mar 18, 2025 8:02:47 AM

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?

Level 15
Mar 18, 2025 8:06:57 AM


@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

New Member
Mar 19, 2025 11:42:41 AM

thanks to someone who told me where to input IP Pin in Personal using Home and Business. 

New Member
Mar 28, 2025 2:24:11 PM

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.

New Member
Apr 5, 2025 2:00:40 PM

where do you enter your ip pin if you are using Turbo Tax desktop

Level 15
Apr 5, 2025 2:03:42 PM

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.

  • Click the Federal Taxes tab or Personal (Home & Business)
  • Click "Other Tax Situations."
  • Scroll down to the section "Other Return Info."
  • Click the Start, Update, or Revisit button for "Identity protection PIN."

New Member
Apr 6, 2025 10:38:09 AM

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!

 

New Member
Apr 6, 2025 11:00:37 AM

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Level 15
Apr 6, 2025 11:10:04 AM

I made you a screen shot.  The Home & Business does not have Federal.  It is broken out in Business & Personal tabs.

 

Level 15
Apr 6, 2025 11:12:42 AM

And here is how to get to the Jump link in my Home & Business version.

 

 

 

New Member
Apr 6, 2025 11:20:48 AM

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

New Member
Apr 6, 2025 11:21:43 AM

MY VERSION DID NOT HAVE A JUMP TO IP.  I TRIED IT AT LEAST 20 TIMES

Level 15
Apr 6, 2025 11:25:30 AM

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.

 

Level 2
Apr 13, 2025 4:58:59 PM

Umm...yeah have read that sentence.  Does not indicate where.

Level 2
Apr 13, 2025 5:02:01 PM

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

 

Level 2
Apr 13, 2025 5:08:22 PM

Chat GPT described the steps.  thanks.

Level 2
Apr 13, 2025 5:09:02 PM

Got it now - Chat GPT described it all. Thanks. Sorry - do not know how to delete this.

New Member
Apr 16, 2025 9:48:47 PM

My IPPin is 6 digits, but the TurboTax 1040 form only allows 5 digits.Will my return be accepted?

 

New Member
Apr 16, 2025 9:57:06 PM

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?

Level 15
Apr 16, 2025 10:12:25 PM


@ 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.)

Level 1
Apr 16, 2025 10:43:40 PM

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.