Instructions For Form 1040 - U.s. Individual Income Tax Return - 2017 Page 77
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107 You can't use the Self-Select
New IP PINs are issued every
parer must give you a copy of the return
!
!
PIN method if you are a
year. Enter the latest IP PIN
for your records. Someone who prepares
first-time filer under age 16 at
you received. IP PINs for 2017
your return but doesn't charge you
CAUTION
CAUTION
the end of 2017.
tax returns generally were sent in De-
shouldn’t sign your return.
cember 2017.
Practitioner PIN. The Practitioner PIN
Assemble Your
method allows you to authorize your tax
If you are filing a joint return and
practitioner to enter or generate your
both taxpayers receive an IP PIN, only
Return
PIN. The practitioner can provide you
the taxpayer whose social security num-
with details.
ber (SSN) appears first on the tax return
Assemble any schedules and forms be-
Form 8453. You must send in a paper
should enter his or her IP PIN. However,
hind Form 1040 in order of the “Attach-
Form 8453 if you have to attach certain
if you are filing electronically, both tax-
ment Sequence No.” shown in the upper
forms or other documents that can't be
payers must enter their IP PINs.
right corner of the schedule or form. If
electronically filed. See Form 8453.
If you need more information, go to
you have supporting statements, arrange
IRS.gov/CP01A. If you received an IP
them in the same order as the schedules
Identity Protection
PIN
but
misplaced
it,
call
or forms they support and attach them
1-800-908-4490.
last. Don’t attach correspondence or oth-
PIN
er items unless required to do so. Attach
Forms W-2 and 2439 to the front of
Paid Preparer Must
For 2017, if you received an Identity
Form 1040. If you received a Form
Protection Personal Identification Num-
Sign Your Return
W-2c (a corrected Form W-2), attach
ber (IP PIN) from the IRS, enter it in the
your original Forms W-2 and any Forms
IP PIN spaces provided below your day-
W-2c. Attach Forms W-2G and 1099-R
time phone number. You must correctly
Generally, anyone you pay to prepare
to the front of Form 1040 if tax was
enter all six numbers of your IP PIN. If
your return must sign it and include their
withheld.
you didn't receive an IP PIN, leave these
Preparer Tax Identification Number
spaces blank.
(PTIN) in the space provided. The pre-
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