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To enter your IP PIN in TurboTax:
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.
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.
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.
@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
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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