ITIN IS EXPIRED??

[fqasem1981]

MY SPOUSE ITIN WITH MIDDLE # 94 IS EXPIRED?

[Bsch4477]

If you know the ITIN is valid ignore the message. 

[DawnC]

You have three consecutive years to use your ITIN at least once on a federal tax return—as a filer or as a dependent—before it expires due to non-use.

You can renew your ITIN for free by filling out a Form W-7 and submitting the required documentation.  Your W-7 application can be submitted via mail to the IRS, or you can call and make an appointment at a designated IRS Taxpayer Assistance Center.

Renew your ITIN if necessary. If you do not renew an expiring or expired ITIN, the IRS can still accept your tax return, but it may delay processing it, which can impact when you get your tax refund. Expiration can also delay tax credits owed to you, such as the Child Tax Credit and the American Opportunity Tax Credit

Here are some helpful answers to some common questions about renewing your ITIN.

[thaiguyinla]

The IRS's latest guidance on what ITIN numbers are valid vs. what ones have expired can be found here:

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/iw7.pdf 

Expired ITINs. If your ITIN wasn’t included on at least one U.S.
federal tax return for the last 3 consecutive tax years, it will expire
on December 31 of the third consecutive tax year, and must be
renewed before being used again on a U.S. federal tax return."

ITINs with middle digits (the fourth and fifth positions) “70,”
“71,” “72,” “73,” “74,” “75,” “76,” “77,” “78,” “79,” “80,” “81,” “82,”
“83,” “84,” “85,” “86,” “87,” or “88” have expired. In addition, ITINs
with middle digits “90,” “91,” “92,” “94,” “95,” “96,” “97,” “98,” or
“99,” IF assigned before 2013, have expired.

So in your case, it appears to depend on whether your family member's ITIN with the middle digits of 94 was issued before 2013 (expired) or after 2013 (not expired unless it went unused per the details recited above.)

[CatinaT1]

"Ignore the message and continue.  TurboTax is incorrectly flagging the middle two digits of the ITIN that are the same as an ITIN issued prior to 2013." 

Here's FAQ's from the IRS regarding ITIN's. 

[thaiguyinla]

Except its not clear that the TT online system will allow a person to file online in the normal way as long as the TT system continues to wrongly show that the ITIN number has expired.

In my case, no matter what I do, the TT system continues to flag my wife's valid ITIN as invalid. What happens if that continues when I'm actually ready to file online?

[DaveF1006]

When you are ready to efile, see if you can move past the error to efile despite the error.

[thaiguyinla]

TT appears to have either fixed or be in the process of fixing this problem for 2023 tax year online users.

Last week when I began work on my 2023 tax return, my NRA wife's valid ITIN (used every year for the past 8 years) was suddenly judged by TT as "invalid."

Now today, suddenly, the same ITIN number, with middle digits of 97 (valid if issued and used consistently after 2013) is now suddenly being accepted by the TT system without any error message.