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Lost W2. Thia is secound year in a row. Employer can not provide another. Is there a way to import my W2 or a copy of what my employer turned into the IRS. My employer uses Intuit to file with the IRS.

 
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Lost W2. Thia is secound year in a row. Employer can not provide another. Is there a way to import my W2 or a copy of what my employer turned into the IRS. My employer uses Intuit to file with the IRS.

No, you can only get a copy of the W-2 from your employer. They are required to provide it to you even if you lost it, I suggest you be persistent. If you cannot get a copy, you can contact the IRS and they will get involved, but they cannot give you a copy either. Worse case scenario, there is a way to estimate the information on it so you can prepare your tax return, but you are required to first exhaust all efforts to get it from your employer.

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Lost W2. Thia is secound year in a row. Employer can not provide another. Is there a way to import my W2 or a copy of what my employer turned into the IRS. My employer uses Intuit to file with the IRS.

"Employer cannot provide another"---sounds like baloney.   They just do not want to be bothered.

 

 

TurboTax does not have your W-2.   W-2’s come from employers.  There is not a federal or national website that provides W-2’s.   If your employer is partnered with TurboTax to allow the W-2 data to be imported into the software you can do that---but you need the actual W-2 so that you can enter the EIN and the amount from box 1 to import the other data from the W-2---which just saves you the little bit of keying in of the other information.

 

W-2's come from your employer, and they have until January 31 to issue it.  Some employers allow you to import the W-2 through the software, but for security reasons you still need information from the actual W-2 to import it. Some employers have payroll sites that will have your W-2. You might need to phone, text, drop in, email and/or snail mail an old employer to make sure they know where to send your W-2.

 

 

Every 2025 W-2 that you received must be reported on your 2025 tax return, even if they are for small amounts.  Remember that each one of those W-2’s has your Social Security number on it, and that income was reported to the IRS by the employer.  You do not want trouble with the IRS for under-reporting your income or have your refund delayed by having missing income.

 

ALL of your W-2’s must be entered on the SAME tax return.  

 

Go to Federal>Wages & Income to enter a W-2.

After you enter the first one, you click Add Another W-2.

 

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-forms/get-copy-w-2/L8FTim9MO_US_en_U...

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/import-enter-w-...

 

And….SAVE YOUR OWN W-2!  TURBOTAX DOES NOT SAVE IT FOR YOU.  TurboTax will not have a copy of it in your account and will not have an image even if you snapped a photo or imported it.  It is up to you to save it for your own records as stated on the back of the W-2. 

 

Other ways to get W-2’s:

You can get a wage and income transcript from the IRS:  It will not show the actual W-2, 1099’s, etc, but will show the income information the IRS received.  It will not, however, show your state information. It will only show the federal information.

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript

 

 

Pay Social Security $62 per tax year for your W-2’s.:

 

https://faq.ssa.gov/en-US/Topic/article/KA-02501

 

**Disclaimer: Every effort has been made to offer the most correct information possible. The poster disclaims any legal responsibility for the accuracy of the information that is contained in this post.**

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