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Trivia about w-2

  • Your employer sends you this, the most common income-reporting tax statement in the United States
  • An employer gives you this form to show how much you made during the year & how much you paid in taxes
  • When Dallas sent out this annual tax form to 13,000 city employees, it marked them dead
  • It's the form of your employer files at year's end showing your compensation & withheld taxes
  • Filed by employers with the SSA, this form shows workers' yearly wages & taxes withheld