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magardo
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What is the five digit signature ID?

It is needed when you are about to file your return
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PandoraS
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What is the five digit signature ID?

The 5 digit signature ID on the Consent to Disclosure screen (also called a Self-Select PIN) is how you sign your federal return if you're e-filing. It's the electronic equivalent of manually signing a paper return.

If the field is blank, just enter any 5-digit number. You can re-use your IRS e-filing PIN or make up a totally different number. Same goes for your spouse if you're filing jointly.

And if you see a prefilled 5-digit number in this field, you can either leave it alone or re-enter a number you like better. It really doesn't matter. Your signature ID doesn't have to match your IRS e-filing PIN.

lingardbarbara01
Returning Member

What is the five digit signature ID?

I have my 5 digit signature pin number and can I use this instead of a IP pin. The irs never

What is the five digit signature ID?


@lingardbarbara01 wrote:

I have my 5 digit signature pin number and can I use this instead of a IP pin. The irs never


You didn't finish your details, and cut off your last sentence, so I don't know what you were going to say about the IRS.


No.  If you are required to use an IP PIN, the 5-digit Signature PIN (or prior-year Self-Select PIN) cannot be used the same way as an IP PIN.  An IP PIN is a 6-digit Identity Protection PIN that is provided by the IRS to certain victims of identity theft.   The 6-digit IP PIN is not entered in the FILE section; it is entered in a completely different section of the return interview.

 

Did you have an IP PIN last year?  If so, you need a new one every year.  You should have been mailed a letter from the IRS in late December or early January 2020 with your new IP PIN to use this year.   If you didn't receive the letter, you may be able to use the IP PIN Retrieval Tool at the IRS website.
https://www.irs.gov/identity-theft-fraud-scams/retrieve-your-ip-pin

 

If you can't use the tool, or if you need more info from that department at the IRS, on that page is a special phone number to speak to someone at the IRS about IP PINs.  In some circumstances, if they can identify you adequately on the phone, they can mail out a letter with your IP PIN.  Read all the info on that page at the link in the paragraph above.

maekhf57
New Member

What is the five digit signature ID?

How do I get my 5 digit pin number to file

CatinaT1
Employee Tax Expert

What is the five digit signature ID?

You can use any 5 digit number.

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What is the five digit signature ID?

i need to find my signature id number 

MaryK4
Employee Tax Expert

What is the five digit signature ID?

See Is my Self-Select PIN the same as my IP PIN? - Community

 

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What is the five digit signature ID?

you chose your 5-digit PIN  last year, and wrote it down, for use this year.

If and only if you are able to E-FIle with AGI, you can select another 5-digit PIN for next year. Write it down.

Aworan
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What is the five digit signature ID?

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Aworan
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What is the five digit signature ID?

How can get 5 digit signature ID

JeanneLO
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What is the five digit signature ID?

You chose this yourself. The 5 digit signature ID on the Consent to Disclosure screen (also called a Self-Select PIN) is how you sign your federal return if you're e-filing. It's the electronic equivalent of manually signing a paper return.

If the field is blank, just enter any 5-digit code that you prefer.

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What is the five digit signature ID?


@Aworan wrote:

How can get 5 digit signature ID


You cannot. The IRS no longer uses new 5 digit  pins.   They only use the last years AGI now, however they will still recognize prior year 5 digit pins if you know what it was.

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lingardbarbara01
Returning Member

What is the five digit signature ID?

So, if you made 24085. Is this how they would put it. 024085? Remember it has to be six digits. And someone told me that you put 2019 AGI on 2019 acct. Not last years 

What is the five digit signature ID?


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So, if you made 24085. Is this how they would put it. 024085? Remember it has to be six digits. And someone told me that you put 2019 AGI on 2019 acct. Not last years 


No, that is not correct.   You seem to be confusing two different areas of TurboTax.    The only PIN on a Federal return that has to be 6 digits is an IP PIN (Identity Protection PIN).  An IP PIN has nothing to do with your 2018 AGI.   An IP PIN is a 6-digit Identity Protection PIN that is provided by the IRS to certain victims of identity theft.   It is a 6-digit number the IRS assigns to you; it has nothing to do with AGI.  The 6-digit IP PIN is not entered in the FILE section; it is entered in a completely different section of the return interview.  If you are supposed to be using a 6-digit IP PIN, we can tell you where to enter it, but you first have to have the IP PIN if you are required to have one.   Without the IP PIN,  you won't be able to efile and would have to paper-file the return in postal mail.   Filing without the IP PIN will also delay processing of your return, since it will take the IRS longer to verify it.

 

Did you have an IP PIN last year?  If so, you need a new one every year.  You should have been mailed a letter from the IRS in late December or early January 2020 with your new IP PIN to use this year.   If you didn't receive the letter, you may be able to use the IP PIN Retrieval Tool at the IRS website.
https://www.irs.gov/identity-theft-fraud-scams/retrieve-your-ip-pin

 

You wrote:  "And someone told me that you put 2019 AGI on 2019 acct. Not last years"

 

That's wrong.   When you later go through the FILE section, if you are efiling the return, it will ask you for your 2018 AGI at that point.    And to electronically sign the return, a screen will ask you to enter a 5-digit Self-Select PIN (any 5 numbers of your choosing, or you can re-use last year's 5-digit Self-Select PIN if you wish.)

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