Just read an item which said IRS was going to require the manual input of SSN's from W-2's on next year's tax returns. And just what is this supposed to accomplish? I am assuming this will not affect rollover of tax data in our software? So we will have to input those on the W-2 worksheet? And I thought issuers were going to truncate the SSN anyway next year. How will that affect non-working dependents?
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I know last year they required software companies require manual entry of SSN on W-2's when the taxpayer had an ITIN. Apparently noone was bothering to put the SSN from the W-2 in the software and sending out returns with ITINs on the W-2's. I haven't heard of anything about this requirement applying to a non-ITIN return yet. I agree, I don't see the purpose for taxpayers with SSN. It's common with taxpayers that have ITIN, but most with SSN are going to use the SSN they have, why wouldn't they? -
SSNs or just ITINs ?
I received some information via ~spam email which showed a reference to disallowing software autopopulate for ITINs....no mention of same for SSNs.
The article ( http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/...s-59435-1.html ) is nearly a year old.
If you have a newer article, especially as related to a similar restriction for entering SSNs, please provide it to us!
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That's it. I missed the distinction completely because they did not use the acronym ITIN.Comment
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