I forgot to add my ip pin to my tax return

[karynroy87]

What do I do now?

[fanfare]

your return will be delayed as manual review by a person will be required. You may be contacted by IRS and/or asked to verify your identity.

[SteamTrain]

IF...IF you already filed it  (hit the "transmit" button)

THEN

The IRS should reject your e-file sometime during the week of 24 Jan  (sometime that week...they have millions lined up to deal with....unless yours happens to get pulled in an earlier test run).

...After they reject it, you will go back in and edit-in your IPPIN on the <Federal <<Other Tax Situations page (you DO Not amend a rejected e-file, you just edit/correct it) then re-e-file after going over everything carefully again, to make sure you didn't forget something else...like bank interest, or Broker/Mutual Fund distributions/dividends/interest...etc).

IF you had a State tax return filed to, it doesn't go in to the state if the Federal file was rejected.  So it can be e-filed again on the second try, unless you choose not to on the second attempt and decided to deal with that later.

[BillM223]

Is this for tax year 2021?

Did you paper file or e-file? If paper file, you don't have to do anything, it's checked only on e-file.

For e-file, your tax return has gone into a holding queue on an Intuit server. You cannot cancel it out of this queue.

When e-filing opens at the IRS about January 24th, then when your return is transmitted (it may take a day or two or three at first) to the IRS, it should be rejected with a reject code for no IP pin. In such a case, you open your return again, add the IP pin, and file as if it is for the first time.