TT Federal review doesn't find that the IRS identity pin is missing

cjuhlman · ‎February 27, 2026

Only after both federal and state returns were rejected, did I have to spend an hour figuring that I had to go to my IRS account to get my Identity PIN for this year, and then figure out where to enter it. Why doesn't the federal review catch this and save a lot of headache?

NotSoTurbo

Not everyone has a IRS pin and only you and the IRS would know that you have the PIN assigned to you. It would a potential security risk if the IRS divulged to Turbo Tax, or any other company or individual, which individuals have IRS PINs.

Consider this a test of the security benefit of having a PIN. If someone other than you had attempted to file a return with your tax payer number (soc. sec) and without the PIN, it would have also been rejected. So, the in this case the process worked as designed.

cjuhlman

I bet what you are saying. But consider this: I received NO notification from the IRS to indicate that I had a new ID pin for 2025, so how would I know the 2024 pin was changed? I think that - since the field was presumably empty - that TT could have asked if I had a new ID pin for 2025, as part of the final review. That would have saved a lot of grief.