IRS gave me 6 digit IP PIN number for e-file.

Your Turbotax is asking only 5 digits and I can't enter my 6 digits.

Can you help??

@Kin39  If you need an IP PIN (Identity Protection PIN), you must get that from the IRS.  See my post above on how to get your IP PIN.

If you don't need an IP PIN but instead need your 2018 AGI to e-file your 2019 return, you would get that from your 2018 tax return.

How do I find last year’s AGI?

Your only choice right now is to mail in the return and you do not need to use the IP PIN when mailing. 

If you want to use  an IP PIN to file your taxes and you lost your CP01A letter (or never received it), you can:

• Retrieve your IP PIN online at the IRS's Get an IP PIN site; or
• Call the IRS at 1-800-908-4490 to have your IP PIN mailed to you (this can take up to 21 days)

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@ggutierrez3511 wrote:

Turbo Tax requires  a 5-digit number, one I can make up.  IRS gives a 6-digit number. So my self created 5-digit number keeps being rejected by the IRS.  What gives? I don't think I'll use Turbo Tax anymore.  Instead I' go back the old school paper and pencil form.

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The 5 digit e-file pin and the 2019 AGI is used to verify you with the IRS for an e-signature on your 2020 tax return.

If you were a victim of identity theft and reported that to the IRS, the IRS will have sent you a 6 digit IP PIN to be entered on your tax return.  If you print and mail the tax return you have to manually entered the 6 digit IP on the tax return in the Signature block area on page 2 of the Form 1040.  The 5 digit self-selected PIN is not used on a mailed tax return.

If you e-file the tax return then you need to enter the 6 digit IP PIN you received from the IRS before filing the tax return.

To enter 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

Or enter ip pin in the Search box located in the upper right of the program screen. Click on Jump to ip pin

Can you please be more specific? How can we help you? @moonkitten46

To see how you can obtain one, click here: How to get one?

To follow steps to enter the IP PIN in the program, click here: IP PIN

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@Qsmith89hrm wrote:

Need my IP pin can't get my stimulus

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An Identity Protection PIN would have been sent to you by the IRS after you had reported an identity theft to the IRS.

Go to this IRS website to retrieve your IP PIN - https://www.irs.gov/identity-theft-fraud-scams/retrieve-your-ip-pin

https://www.irs.gov/identity-theft-fraud-scams/retrieve-your-ip-pin

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@Shyler78  wrote:

How do I get my IP pin

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As previously stated on this thread - https://www.irs.gov/identity-theft-fraud-scams/retrieve-your-ip-pin