Why sign in to the Community?

  • Submit a question
  • Check your notifications
Sign in to the Community or Sign in to TurboTax and start working on your taxes
New Member
posted Jun 4, 2019 4:30:11 PM

Do i have to use the original w2 form or can i use a printed one

0 6 10987
6 Replies
New Member
Jun 4, 2019 4:30:13 PM

You can use a printed one. It doesn't matter since the IRS receives the same information.

New Member
Feb 5, 2020 2:48:58 PM

Can I use regular blank paper or does it need to be perforated paper 

Expert Alumni
Feb 5, 2020 3:20:56 PM

The regular blank paper is acceptable for filing your return.

 

The W-2 copies must be easily separable or already separated.  Perforations meet this requirement, as does cutting them yourself. 

 

The regulation is designed so that employees don't have to cut the W-2's themselves.  If the forms are printed on different pieces of paper, or they are cut, then this of course meets the requirement to be easily separable, since they're already separated. 

Level 1
Mar 29, 2023 6:22:50 AM

.

Level 15
Mar 29, 2023 6:47:13 AM

@SBTX1 Your post is blank.  Do you have a question?

Level 1
Mar 29, 2023 6:48:52 AM

I apologize, I replied to the wrong thread, didn't know how to delete so I backspaced the text.  New to the community forums, sorry about that!