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posted Mar 10, 2025 2:00:23 PM

W2

TurboTasx supposedly loaded my W2 onto your website. However, I cannot find it anywhere on my tax table.

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Expert Alumni
Mar 10, 2025 2:04:31 PM

Please clarify your question by adding some additional information so we may better help you. Please explain your situation in more detail. What are you trying to do in TurboTax? TurboTax loaded your W-2 onto what website? Where are you looking for it? What do you mean by you can't find it on your tax table? Are you trying to upload your W-2 into TurboTax?

Level 15
Mar 10, 2025 3:09:51 PM

You have to enter your W-2 yourself, either by importing it, keying it in by hand, or snapping a photo with the mobile app.   It does not just go into the software all by itself.

 

You may have received a marketing email that made it seem like your W-2 is just there waiting for you ---but it does not work that way.

 

If your employer is partnered with TurboTax to allow the W-2 data to be imported into the software you can do that---but you need the actual W-2 so that you can enter the EIN and the amount from box 1 to import the other data from the W-2---which just saves you the little bit of keying in of the other information.

 

 

W-2's come from your employer, and they have until January 31 to issue it.  Some employers allow you to import the W-2 through the software, but for security reasons you still need information from the actual W-2 to import it. Some employers have payroll sites that will have your W-2. You might need to phone, drop in, email and/or snail mail an old employer to make sure they know where to send your W-2.

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-forms/get-copy-w-2/L8FTim9MO_US_en_US?uid=m68ee4os

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/import-enter-w-2/L55HzdeDr_US_en_US?uid=m68efe36

 

 

And….SAVE YOUR OWN W-2!  TURBOTAX DOES NOT SAVE IT FOR YOU.  TurboTax will not have a copy of it in your account and will not have an image even if you snapped a photo or imported it.  It is up to you to save it for your own records as stated on the back of the W-2.