IRS migrates e-Services login to ID.me

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In the summer of 2022, the IRS plans to migrate the e-Services suite of tax professional online applications and products behind ID.me. Users for those applications create an account via a trusted technology provider, ID.me, instead of the legacy IRS system. Modernized e-File (MeF) for E-filing Form 941 will be affected. Depending on the IRS timing of this transition, users may have to complete an ID.me login prior to e-filing 2022 2nd quarter Form 941. CFS recommends creating your login now to avoid last minute issues.

Links to create an ID.me account can be found on various government websites, and once you’re registered on ID.me, your password will be the same (regardless of which government website you are logging into (e.g., SSA’s Business Services Online (BSO), the IRS MEF website (for 941 e-filing), IRS e-services, etc).  Note also that your ID.me account is associated with your email account (your email will function like a user name).

Typically, when a government website asks you to login using ID.me, once you login, ID.me will send you directly back/onto that particular government website.  For instance, if you go to SSA’s BSO website (to e-file W-2’s), after using your ID.me password, ID.me will take you straight back to BSO’s website. 

This particular ID.me link comes from IRS E-services for Tax Practitioners, and can be used to open your new ID.me account:

Create id.me: Sign In or Create a New Account

If you have issues creating an ID.me account using “Self-Service” (not uncommon), you can instead choose, “Video Chat Agent” to create an account; here’s a help link: Verifying your identity on a video call.

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Modifying Your IRS E-Services Application to E-file Forms 94X (Forms 941, 940, etc.)

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