Does My Employer Need to Provide Me a Corrected W2? - State Tax Wrong

[muchick7]

My employer never changed my state income tax after I moved from one city to the next. So all of my state tax is in one state (PA), but should be split between two states (PA & DC)? Does my employer need to provide me with a corrected W2 that shows the proper breakdown in income earned in each state? And is my employer in any way responsible for the cost of the mess-up (for the unpaid DC taxes?)

[mkvkelley]

Your employer Must provide you with a corrected W-2 once you notify them of the problem. It's possible that they too need to correct that amounts submitted to each state on your behalf.
I am unaware of any reason they would be responsible for "any mess" as you are not late filing yet.
If you filed incorrectly, you only need to file an amended return(s) once you know the correct amount of taxes that should be allocated and reported to each state.
If you haven't filed and it gets close to the filing deadline and you are still awaiting corrected W-2 s, you can always estimate what you might owe, if anything (so no interest/penalties accumulate) and use Turbo Tax to file the necessary extensions for the effected state returns until you actually receive the corrected W-2 s.
Again, I am not a tax expert or attorney but I am unaware of any liability on your employer's part of an error that they are notified of and correct in a timely manner.
* Just as an aside from working where W-2s and 1099s were prepared; they generally reflect the accumulation of what you've been receiving on your pay stub. Try to watch those especially as you enter the last quarter of the calendar year so you can notify your employer of any issues with information and taxes collected and disbursed on your behalf.

[vanidosa27]

It is a mess for my client where the employer took Wisconsin taxes out when my client lived and worked in IL. So on his W-2 it shows wages with all taxes paid to a state he did not live in and the State of IL is fining him for non-payment of estimated taxes. 

How do we correct this issue? 

[DMarkM1]

To mitigate at this point your client needs to file a nonresident return with WI to get all taxes paid refunded.  You client then of course needs to file resident IL returns.  Hopefully, the WI refund covers most if not all IL taxes. 

While working this, your client, if they haven't already, needs to file forms W4 with the employer to have the correct state withhold taxes.  A WT-4 to have WI stop withholding and IL-W-4 to have IL start withholding.