Is my ip pin on my last year tax return????

[Carl]

No. The 6-digit IP PIN changes every year. The IRS will mail you the new one sometime in January of 2018. Now the 5-digit filing PIN doesn't change year to year (unless you take physical action to change it). So that will be imported from the prior year's return.

[rothpatty818]

I need it to send this years taxes

[DoninGA · Accepted solution]

No.  The IP PIN is not shown on the tax return.  It is sent to the IRS when the tax return is e-filed.  If you had printed and mailed your tax return then you would have to manually enter the IP PIN in the signature section of the return.

[Carl]

Your 5 digit filing PIN does not change year-to-year unless you change it.

Your 6-digit Identity Protection PIN (IP-PIN) will definitely change every year. You do not change it. The IRS sends your new IP PIN via the U.S. Postal Service every year. They mail them out in the Dec-Jan timeframe to the address on your most previously filed return. So if you moved and did not notify the IRS of your new address via IRS Form 8822, then they sent your 2017 IP PIN to your old address. See https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc157 for notifying the IRS of this.