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File Forms W-2c (Corrected Wage and Tax Statement) and W-3c (Transmittal of Corrected Wage and Tax Statement) as soon as possible after you discover an error. Also, provide a Form W-2c to the employee as soon as possible.

Request that your employer send you a corrected W-2 form if you have not already filed it with the IRS. Ask your employer to send you the amended W-2 with the word Corrected written at the top of your copy of the form. Ensure that your employer submits a copy of the corrected W-2 to the IRS with Form W-2C attached.

If an employer makes a mistake on a form W-2, the employer will issued a corrected form W-2, called a form W-2c, Corrected Wage and Tax Statement. ... If you have not yet filed your tax return, just use the corrected amounts as reported on the W-2c on your tax return.

Employers are required to correct errors on Forms W-2 as quickly as possible. The penalty for filing an incorrect W-2 with the SSA increases over time. To avoid penalties, a Form W-2c is generally required within 30 days of becoming aware of an error.

If you talk to your employer and find out someone sent your form to the wrong address, have them re-send the W-2 to your correct address immediately. If you don't have time to wait for the new form, you can file Form 4852, Substitute for Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement.

Make a new Form W-2 with the correct information. Write CORRECTED on the employee copies and give them to the employee. Then, send the correct version of Copy A to the SSA (do not write CORRECTED on this copy). Also, do not use Form W-2c to report corrections to an employee's back pay.

If by the end of February, your attempts to have the Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement corrected by your employer are unsuccessful, you can request that an IRS representative initiate a Form W-2 complaint. Call the IRS toll free at 800-829-1040 or make an appointment to visit an IRS Taxpayer Assistance Center (TAC).

Don't worry if your mailing address on your W-2 form is wrong or has since changed. This won't affect your taxes. ... On the other hand, if your name, Social Security number, or any dollar amount(s) on your W-2 are wrong, ask your employer for a corrected W-2 (also known as Form W-2c: Corrected Wage and Tax Statement).

Simply give the employee the new form showing the correct address. Fill out a corrected W-3, which is a transmittal form that shows the totals of the W-2s you are sending. The totals for all items on the W-3c must equal the totals for the items on all employees' W-2cs.

Sign into your online account. Click the orange button that says "Take me to my return" Go to Federal Taxes then Wages & Income. Scroll down to Wages and Salaries and select Start/Revisit. Enter the W-2c.

File Forms W-2c (Corrected Wage and Tax Statement) and W-3c (Transmittal of Corrected Wage and Tax Statement) as soon as possible after you discover an error. Also, provide a Form W-2c to the employee as soon as possible.

When you receive your IRS W-2 form each year from your employer, box 2, "Federal income tax withheld," shows the amount of tax money your employer deducted from your pay and sent to the IRS to cover the income taxes you owe.

A W-2 form, also known as the Wage and Tax Statement, is the document an employer is required to send to each of their employees and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) at the end of the year. The W-2 form reports the employee's annual wages and the amount of taxes withheld from his or her paychecks.

You must report all employer contributions (including an employee's contributions through a cafeteria plan) to an HSA in box 12 of Form W-2 with code W. Employer contributions to an HSA that are not excludable from the income of the employee also must be reported in boxes 1, 3, and 5.

In general, when an employer makes contributions to employees' HSAs, the employer must report them on the individual Form W-2 for each employee that received a contribution. The amount an employer reports on Form W-2 must also include any money the employee elected to contribute to the HSA through a cafeteria plan.