Save documentation about your multiple requests to your employer for a W-2.
If you have not received your W2 at this point, and have made an effort, you will need to use your paystubs to complete a substitute W2.
You will explain to the IRS that your (former) employer refused. As they are required to provide, "threaten" them with this before you file. It can come back to bite them if you file a substitute form and state that they wouldn't abide by your request.
Go to:
- Federal Taxes
- Wages and Income
- Wages and Salaries
- Add W2
- Do your best to complete a W2 as if you had one
- After entering this W2 draft, you come to the screen "Do Any of these Uncommon Situations Apply?"
- check Substitute Form
- You will complete the Form 4852 as best as you can.
Your return cannot be efiled with a Form 4852, so consider one last attempt.
Do you have a W2 from last year? You will be prompted to enter an EIN, which you can get from another year. You can also try googling it or asking ex-coworkers.
If you cannot obtain the W-2 from your employer, then for a fee you can get a complete copy of a W-2 from the Social Security Administration.
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