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- noun US, taxation A form reporting one's
compensation as an employee during a year at an employer or personal income taxation.
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Examples
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You get a paycheck and are what is known as a W-2 employees - all wages and income come from one employer via a W-2.
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A discount is recorded on your W-2 form that should raise cost basis and lower taxes when the stock is sold.
30 Last-Minute Tax Tips Laura Saunders 2011
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Not bad in Nebraska, but not good and ties me down almost as much as if I were a W-2.
Brad DeLong on Health Care, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Once his visa is granted the immigrant would file and pay Federal income tax every year, and if his W-2 income did not exceed the US 3rd-quartile wage for seven quarters out of every eight we would cancel his visa and make him leave the country.
Immigration Quota Management, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It has always been simple for him, W-2 and April 15.
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It was simple: Paste the name of a low-earning borrower onto a photocopy of a W-2 tax form belonging to a higher-earning borrower, run the cut-and-paste version through a Xerox machine and, like magic, you had a piece of paper that made a bad loan prospect suddenly look better.
The art of mortgage duplicity Steven E. Levingston 2010
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• Toss out your W-2 and 1099 forms from seven years ago and earlier.
Lighten Up Peter Walsh 2011
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"The number is not on the W-2 and there's no letter," says Melissa Labant , an expert with the American Institute of CPAs.
30 Last-Minute Tax Tips Laura Saunders 2011
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• Toss out pay stubs after they are checked against your W-2 or 1099.
Lighten Up Peter Walsh 2011
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This means your year-end W-2 shows the net of your gross income less the retirement contribution.
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