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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
Turbo tax only allows for a 5 digit PIN. The government PIN is 6 digits --- what do I need to do. The IRS has already rejected my return for the PIN. Also my wife's PIN is only 5 digits the same one we have used for years
Here are two ways to navigate to the section to enter the 6 digit IP PIN:
Or another way:
The IP Pin will change each and every year. This is an Identity Protection Pin.
You can get an Identity Protection pin here, or if you lost your IP PIN, you can go here to Retrieve IP PIN.
Here's how you can fix a reject:
Sign in to your account and select the Fix my return button. Follow any “fix it” instructions to update the information causing the rejection.
Note: Not all rejections will have explicit guides to fix the information. You’ll need to navigate to the program area to address the cause of the rejection.
Time-saving Tip: If what you originally entered is correct, you won't be able to e-file. There's probably a data mismatch at the government, a dependent that's already been claimed, or some other situation beyond your control that prevents your return from being e-filed. In this case, your only option would be to print and mail in your return. This article will give you instruction on how to print and mail your return.
Additional reject instruction here.
The IP-PIN window only allows a 5-digit number, but the IP-PIN I received a 6-digit IP-PIN from the IRS, and it will not fit in the TURBO TAX IP-PIN window; what do I do?
@goofy1945 wrote:
The IP-PIN window only allows a 5-digit number, but the IP-PIN I received a 6-digit IP-PIN from the IRS, and it will not fit in the TURBO TAX IP-PIN window; what do I do?
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
Open Turbotax & click on the "Federal Taxes" tab near the top of the page. Next, click "Other Tax Situations" and scroll down to "Other Return Info". On the Identity protection PIN line, click "Update". Answer YES to the question did you receive an IP pin. Next, add your IP pin across from your name. Done!
I received a 6 digit IP PIN number, but Turbo Tax only allow a 5 digit pin number. How do I enter my 6 digit pin?
Here are two ways to navigate to the section to enter the 6 digit IP PIN:
Or another way:
Re: click on Federal. I am using the Mac version of TurboTax and nowhere is the a tab labeled Federal. The tabs always start with Personal. So this answer is not useful to me at all.
Federal is the tax right next to personal.
@johnkrienke wrote:
Re: click on Federal. I am using the Mac version of TurboTax and nowhere is the a tab labeled Federal. The tabs always start with Personal. So this answer is not useful to me at all.
Posted this in January of 2025 on this thread above -
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
If you filed online it may reject. You have to check from start don’t go to form go back to step by step you may able to find it
The Desktop version of TurboTax only allow 5 digits.
If you are seeing only a 5-digit PIN number, that is not the IP PIN.
To enter your IP PIN issued by the IRS for identity protection using a desktop version of TurboTax, go to Other Tax Situations > Other Return Info and click Start beside Identity protection PIN to enter your information.
If you did e file. You may not accept your return
you have to go back to check from the start on Turbo Tax follow the instruction it will ask you do enter the pin it will take 6 digits. If you go to form to enter it won’t take. I had same issue. Good luck
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