Can I Download My Census Bureau W2 Online?

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Connor Sephton Subber Profile
2009 W-2 forms are not available online anywhere.
You should have received your 2009 W-2 form from your employer on or before 31st January  2010. If you did not receive your form or you require a copy, you should first contact your employer as you as the employee re ultimately responsible for obtaining a copy. If you did not get the W-2 form by 14th February 2010 then the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) should have contacted your employer and requested that the employee copy be provided.

It is worth checking that your employer has your correct address on file. Your employer is required to send you a duplicate W2 to your correct address within two weeks.

If for whatever reason your employer can be of no assistance in this matter (such as the company has gone bust) then you should contact the IRS to obtain your W-2 form. You should have all of your employer’s information at hand as well as your info and an estimated figure of wages and taxes withheld for the year before contacting the IRS as they will ask you for such information.

As the W-2 form you require is now antiquated, the IRS may not be especially amenable to your request for said form. In this case you may have to pay another company to extract this information. These companies however may only employ the same methods described above.

One such company is Rapid Tax (www.rapidtax.org/id69.html) who charges $39.95 to access your old W-2s, going back to 2001. They will email or fax you the results so it appears that the information is not stored online, not accessibly anyway.
Amanda Wells Profile
Amanda Wells answered
No, you can't do that. These forms are only available from government departments. If you think you should have one and you haven't received it, your local government office is the best place to ask for help.
Jennifer Bone Profile
Jennifer Bone answered
You cannot currently download your W2 from the Census Bureau online.  The only way to obtain it is to contact your local government offices and put in a request through them for a paper copy.  You may have to try several times and be transferred to a few different numbers before you are successful.  They are often sent out in a less than timely manner which means that you are likely to be one of many people requesting copies because they are either late or were missed in the post due to moving house etc.
Anonymous Profile
Anonymous answered
W2express.com   Not all companies use this service, but if they do all you do is type in the company name and print it off! Hopes this helps! :)
Amanda Wells Profile
Amanda Wells answered
You can't access these online - quite a lot of people have tried. You need to contact your local government office and ask about it - but as the last answer suggested, this can be a long job so you may need to call a couple of times before you get through.
Amanda Wells Profile
Amanda Wells answered
Sorry,  you can't find it online, download it or print it. A lot of people have asked this question. You have to go to your local government or social security office - you can call them initially to ask for the right department, but I think you actually have to go there to collect your W-2.
Jennifer Bone Profile
Jennifer Bone answered
You cannot currently download your W2 from the Census Bureau online so you cannot print it yourself.  The only way to obtain your census W2 is to contact your local government offices and put in a request through them for a paper copy.  As W2s are often sent out in a less than timely manner quite a few people pursue obtaining copies.  This can create a bit of a backlog, so you sometimes have to make the request a few times and/or follow it up before your succeed in obtaining a copy.
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Anonymous answered
I called my local senators office today inquiring about lack of timliness of getting my w-2's. The workers have not received their either and stated if we don't get them by Saturday to call local senators office to have them research why we have not received them. Need to remember this is government for you.
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Anonymous answered
Lol  I wish it were!  I am waiting for mine too.  So is everyone I worked with!

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