How Do You Make Adjustments To A W2?
There are many reasons why you would need to make adjustments to a W2 form. Sometimes employees move and forget to give you forwarding addresses. Other times your payroll preparer may make a mistake in addition or in figuring out the total wages for the year. You might print your company’s address incorrectly on every employee W2 and need to do them all over again. Fortunately, you can make adjustments to a W2 easily no matter what the error may be. Adjust a Form That Was Not Filed Step 1 Change or correct a W2 form with mistakes on it by filling out a new W2 form, this one with the correct information. Next, issue a new W2 form to the employee and write “corrected” at the top of the employee’s copy. Step 2 File the form with the Social Security Administration as if you didn’t make an adjustment. You never filed the incorrect form in the first place, so there is no need to notify the SSA. Step 3 Tell your employee to use the new W2 on her tax return if she has not already filed. She sh
