{"id":323,"date":"2020-12-04T16:13:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T16:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sz-cpas.com\/blog\/?p=323"},"modified":"2020-12-04T16:13:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T16:13:59","slug":"irs-identity-protection-pin-opt-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasserath.vglmarketing.pro\/index.php\/2020\/12\/04\/irs-identity-protection-pin-opt-in\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Will Expand Identity Protection PIN Opt-in Program in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IRS announced this week that starting in January 2021, the Identity Protection (IP) PIN opt-in program will be expanded to all taxpayers who can properly verify their identities. The IP PIN is a six-digit number assigned to eligible taxpayers to help prevent the misuse of their Social Security number on fraudulent federal income tax returns. An IP PIN helps the IRS verify a taxpayer&#8217;s identity and accept their electronic or paper tax return.<\/p>\n<p>The fastest way to get an IP PIN is through the IRS&#8217;s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/identity-theft-fraud-scams\/get-an-identity-protection-pin\">Get An IP PIN<\/a>\u201d tool. Expected to be available in mid-January, the tool uses Secure Access authentication, which verifies a person&#8217;s identity through several different methods. Once received, an IP PIN is valid for one year; taxpayers must obtain a newly generated IP PIN each January. The IRS plans to offer an opt-out feature to the IP PIN program in 2022 if taxpayers find it is not right for them.<\/p>\n<p>More information is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/newsroom\/national-tax-security-awareness-week-day-3-irs-expands-identity-protection-pin-opt-in-program-to-taxpayers-nationwide\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IRS announced this week that starting in January 2021, the Identity Protection (IP) PIN opt-in program will be expanded to all taxpayers who can properly verify their identities. The IP PIN is a six-digit number assigned to eligible taxpayers to help prevent the misuse of their Social Security number on fraudulent federal income tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasserath.vglmarketing.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasserath.vglmarketing.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasserath.vglmarketing.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasserath.vglmarketing.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasserath.vglmarketing.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sasserath.vglmarketing.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/sasserath.vglmarketing.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasserath.vglmarketing.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasserath.vglmarketing.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasserath.vglmarketing.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasserath.vglmarketing.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}