It appears to me that your employer is attempting to avoid paying taxes to the IRS in a timely manner, a serious crime in the pantheon of IRS crimes. That is, they reported on the copy of your W-2 that they sent the IRS that they withheld only $27 from you which they sent to the IRS but in fact withheld much more than that from you which they would send to the IRS later.
John's second set of instructions comes from this IRS webpage (good advice); when you call the IRS, be sure to tell them that this employer does this every year, so it appears that they are trying to stiff the IRS.
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