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You can't use your last pay stub to file your tax return. You have to wait until you get your W-2. Your employer has until February 1 to send it to you. Some of the information on the W-2 might be different from what's on your pay stub, and the pay stub does not have all the information you need. If you try to use your pay stub, you will be back here next month asking us what you have to do because some of the information on your W-2 is different from what you filed.
No. Wait for your W-2. Your employer will issue your W-2 by February 1 or sooner. Your pay stub will not match the W-2. The W-2 is what the IRS gets, and your tax return must match it. The IRS will not be accepting 2020 returns until the end of January at the earliest so you CAN wait.
Every 2020 W-2 that you received must be reported on your 2020 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 to get in trouble with the IRS for under-reporting your income.
ALL of your W-2’s must be entered on the SAME tax return. After you enter the first one, you click Add Another W-2.
W-2's come from your employer, and they have until February 1 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. You might need to phone, drop in, email and/or snail mail an old employer to make sure they know where to send your W-2.
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https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc154
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