IRS Identity Protection PIN?

Taxes
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I thought I heard on the podcast the other day about making an IRS PIN to help prevent identity theft. Has anyone done this before? What website? I tried searching the forum and clark.com and didn’t see anything come up but could of missed it. I think it might have been the comment of an enrolled agent.

“Get An Identity Protection PIN (IP PIN)” – these seems like the right website at irs.gov but I’d feel better getting confirmation for you all or an article on clark.com.

Thanks for your help.

3

Yes, it’s legit, but once caused me a problem. [my fault] On my e-file return, it asks to create a PIN. But it did not work, nor work the following year. I have no idea what it’s for, but the IRS version of the PIN is the only one that works.

And I believe it’s different every year. [I think]

4

The pin that online tax companies want is separate from the IRS pin they would give you.