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Individual Tax Return
Request for Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) and Certification
Single and Joint Filers With No Dependents
Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate

 

Request for Transcript of Tax Returns
Employer's Quarterly Federal Tax Return
Installment Agreement Request
Wage and Tax Statement

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About Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement (Info Copy Only)

Every employer engaged in a trade or business who pays remuneration, including noncash payments of $600 or more for the year (all amounts if any income, social security, or Medicare tax was withheld) for services performed by an employee must file a Form W-2 for each employee (even if the employee is related to the employer) from whom:

  • Income, social security, or Medicare tax was withheld.
  • Income tax would have been withheld if the employee had claimed no more than one withholding allowance or had not claimed exemption from withholding on Form W-4, Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate.

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Form W-2

Instructions for Forms W-2 and W-3 (HTML)
(Including Forms W-2AS, W-2CM, W-2GU, W-2VI, W-3SS, W-2c, and W-3c)


Recent Developments

Notice 2016-55 provides special relief intended to support leave-based donation programs to aid victims who have suffered from the extraordinary destruction caused by severe storms and flooding in Louisiana

Important information on employment tax withholding obligations and Form W-2 filing obligations of federal employers with employees who work in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico


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