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JohnW152
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Where do i enter ip pin number

To enter your IP PIN in TurboTax:

  1. Sign in to your TurboTax account
  2. Open your return 
  3. In the search bar type IP pin 
  4. Select the Jump to ip pin link
  5. On the Identity Protection PIN screen, answer Yes
  6. Enter all relevant information

Your IP PIN validates you as your Social Security number's true owner, and prevents future tax fraud.

 

Please see the TurboTax Help article How do I add or remove my 6-digit IP PIN? for further guidance.

Where do i enter ip pin number

A 6-digit PIN is an Identity Protection PIN (also called an IP PIN) that the IRS provides for victims of ID theft whose cases they are working with. That is entered in a completely different program area--not in the efile section.

The regular Efiling PIN is 5 digits and will be encountered during the process of efiling.

If you have a 6-digit IP PIN to enter, here's where to enter it.

·         FEDERAL TAXES tab. 

·         Then sub tab "Other Tax Situations."

·         Scroll down to "Other Return Info".

·         Find subtopic "Identity Protection PIN", and click START.

growahead
New Member

Where do i enter ip pin number

Where do you enter the IP Pin on the TurboTax 2022 desktop application? All the instructions for adding the IP Pin only show how to update it within the online version. 

I had mistakenly used last year's PIN when e-filing on the desktop app. It was rejected, but there is no option to change the PIN within the desktop app before re-filing.

Where do i enter ip pin number


@growahead wrote:

Where do you enter the IP Pin on the TurboTax 2022 desktop application? All the instructions for adding the IP Pin only show how to update it within the online version. 

I had mistakenly used last year's PIN when e-filing on the desktop app. It was rejected, but there is no option to change the PIN within the desktop app before re-filing.


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

Where do i enter ip pin number

It's very convoluted and hard to find where to enter the IP PIN. 

You go to Federal Taxes 

Then Other Tax Situations

Then Other Return Info 

Then click on "update" next to the Identity Protection PIN label.

 

I know. Intuit really dropped the ball on the user interface design.

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