If you have already filed your tax return, and this is the only "new"
information you would otherwise have to add to it, then you need do
nothing at all. The reason for this is that you are not required to amend a tax
return if there has been no actual change to the taxpayer information included
with your original return.
A "corrected" W-2, with the same
data as the original W-2, or that does not cause a change in the taxpayer's original refund (or liability) . . . is really no change at all, and thus does not require the filing of a federal or state amended tax return.
In the case where the taxpayer has not
already filed their tax return, and the two W-2s are otherwise identical,
then it doesn't matter which one is used to input taxpayer
information into the software (and onto the tax return to be filed) because the
data is otherwise identical.
That said, is this really what you mean
to ask? Is your "corrected" W-2 truly identical to your original W-2?
Or, rather, is it that your corrected W-2, when entered into the tax
software, did not produce a different dollar amount for your tax refund
(or your tax liability), when compared with the refund amount obtained
by using your original W-2 data?
Well, even if that is the case,
then you still don't (legally) have to do anything with your corrected
W-2, because your actual refund hasn't changed, even where the corrected
W-2 numbers may be somewhat different than the original W-2 figures.
So,
whichever way you look at it, and however the question is interpreted,
you will be fine doing nothing with your corrected W-2. You are not
required to take any action with it.
Thank you for asking this question.
