Yes, you should file the W-2 if it has SS and Medicare taxes withheld (boxes 4 and 6). It is earned income and the payments are credited to your social security and medicare account for retirement. You can include the W-2 but if it has no wages in box 1 it won't be able to be e-filed. Your return would need to be paper-filed. You can ask the issuer for a corrected copy and have them enter the real amount on Box 1. Then enter the corrected W-2 and just do the one negative entry in the miscellaneous income section to remove the wages from your tax return. But you can leave them if they help you get a larger Earned Income Credit. The $1 trick will allow the return to be e-filed, but as mentioned above, you are choosing to file an altered tax document which is frowned upon by the IRS. @Zeeebear64
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