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Kirk

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Dec 17, 2002, 2:48:23 PM12/17/02
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Actually, when is the latest day a former employer must
provide you your W2's? If the exceed this deadline, What
action can be taken?

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D. Stussy

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Dec 19, 2002, 12:02:29 AM12/19/02
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Kirk wrote:

> Actually, when is the latest day a former employer must
> provide you your W2's? If the exceed this deadline, What
> action can be taken?

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Herb Smith

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Dec 19, 2002, 12:21:36 AM12/19/02
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ki...@loganet.net (Kirk) wrote:

> Actually, when is the latest day a former employer must
> provide you your W2's? If the exceed this deadline, What
> action can be taken?

The employer must provide them to you by January 31, 2003.
Putting the document in the mail by that date is "providing"
them to you. If you don't receive one by mid-February 2003,
contact the employer.

D.F. Manno

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Dec 19, 2002, 12:21:40 AM12/19/02
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ki...@loganet.net (Kirk) wrote:

> Actually, when is the latest day a former employer must
> provide you your W2's? If the exceed this deadline, What
> action can be taken?

Technically, you can request your W-2 30 days after leaving
the job. Practically speaking, though, your former employer
has until January 30 of the following year to deliver the
form to you (same as for those still working), since the IRS
will not take action on missing W-2s until after that
deadline.

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D. Stussy

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Dec 21, 2002, 3:17:03 AM12/21/02
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D.F. Manno wrote:
> ki...@loganet.net (Kirk) wrote:

>> Actually, when is the latest day a former employer must
>> provide you your W2's? If the exceed this deadline, What
>> action can be taken?

> Technically, you can request your W-2 30 days after leaving
> the job. Practically speaking, though, your former employer
> has until January 30 of the following year to deliver the
> form to you (same as for those still working), since the IRS
> will not take action on missing W-2s until after that
> deadline.

That is true, and it is also true that the IRS will NOT take
action, despite there being a procedure to follow when the
employer does not issue the form by the 30th day following
your request. The procedure indicates that one file a
complaint with the local IRS "district director" (who know
who that is now, that the IRS doesn't have districts
anymore), and that defaults in 60 days as a final agency
action (appealable under the Administrative Procedures Act
to a U.S. District Court - but good luck there; one has to
show how not issuing the document causes damage).

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