https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/my-w2-doesn-t-include-box-number-2-it-s-an-electronic-generated-copy-and-it-doesn-t-even-have-an-ein/01/3141515#M1152732 Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:35:09 GMT joedeanhulett 2026-02-10T09:35:09Z https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/my-w2-doesn-t-include-box-number-2-it-s-an-electronic-generated-copy-and-it-doesn-t-even-have-an-ein/01/3141515#M1152732 Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:35:09 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/my-w2-doesn-t-include-box-number-2-it-s-an-electronic-generated-copy-and-it-doesn-t-even-have-an-ein/01/3141515#M1152732 joedeanhulett 2026-02-10T09:35:09Z https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/re-my-w2-doesn-t-include-box-number-2-it-s-an-electronic-generated-copy-and-it-doesn-t-even-hav/01/3141519#M1152734 <P>Can you contact your employer to get a correct, paper copy?</P> Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:47:30 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/re-my-w2-doesn-t-include-box-number-2-it-s-an-electronic-generated-copy-and-it-doesn-t-even-hav/01/3141519#M1152734 TomK2023 2024-01-24T17:47:30Z https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/re-my-w2-doesn-t-include-box-number-2-it-s-an-electronic-generated-copy-and-it-doesn-t-even-have-an/01/3141521#M1152735 <P>Contact your employer.&nbsp; Either you did not earn enough to have federal tax withheld, or there is some mistake.&nbsp; Find out before you enter that W-2 into your tax return.&nbsp; &nbsp;And...of course you need an EIN.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Are you absolutely sure it is a W-2?&nbsp; Or is it something else---like a 1099 of some kind?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:47:58 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/re-my-w2-doesn-t-include-box-number-2-it-s-an-electronic-generated-copy-and-it-doesn-t-even-have-an/01/3141521#M1152735 xmasbaby0 2024-01-24T17:47:58Z