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Where can I find my 2023 signature PIN?

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February 10, 2025
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If you're referring to the 5-digit Signature PIN to electronically sign your return on a screen with "today's date" and your birthdate, you don't have to use the same one as last year (aka "Prior-Year PIN"). You can make up a new one.

If you do want to use the same one as last year, we can tell you how you "might" be able to find it. Did you use the 2023 Online TurboTax or the desktop version?

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jenniferjlhhayesAuthor

Yes

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mesquitebean

I used the desktop version in 2023 and I need the pin I used to file 2024. Desktop version also.

@ willallen1 wrote:
I used the desktop version in 2023 and I need the pin I used to file 2024. Desktop version also.

It's not required to use last year's 5-digit PIN. However, since you used desktop software both years, it may already be prepopulated from 2023. If you wish, you will have the opportunity to create a new one when you electronically sign the return. For verification purposes when efiling it will ask you for your 2023 AGI (that, too, may have already transferred in.)

But if you want the 5-digit PIN from last yeart, you "might" be able to see it this way:

If you used desktop software in 2023 and transferred in the *.tax2023 data file into your desktop 2024 return, it should already be in your 2024 return. Go into Forms Mode. The 5-digit PIN used last year may be on the 2024 Federal Information Worksheet. It's way down in Part VII of that worksheet. Or you can look on last year's Federal Information Worksheet to see if it's there if you saved a PDF with all the 2023 forms, or if you have the 2023 software installed.

Or did you already efile and got a rejection? If so, the rejection was most likely for 2023 AGI, not PIN.