W-2 From Job Never Worked At

[gman]

Taxpayer received a w-2 with their social security number on it. Taxpayer never worked
at this business. Who would they contact other than that employer to report this and get more info on this business. Wages were only 180.00, but do not belong to taxpayer?

[jainen]

name, SSN, and address

>>Who would they contact other than that employer to report this <<

I'm sure the employer already knows they are hiring illegal aliens, so why bother? Call the three credit reporting agencies and tell them somebody else is using the name, SSN, and address.

[Possi]

strange w2

That would have never occurred to me, Jainen. Maybe it's a regional thing, I don't know. I would have called the employer to be sure the client didn't work for a day or 2 and just forgot. Was your client sober when he came in?


~poss

[taxea]

W-2 From Job Never Worked At

Also contact the IRS and state tax agency taxea

[ecb34691]

Had a case last year where client got letter from IRS for under reported w-2 income for about $18,000 from a Boston area company with a t/p address in Boston and he was living in Pureto Rico. Took a lot of correspondence but IRS reversed themselves when it was obvious an identity theft had occured.

[Bonnie]

[QUOTE=Possi;34207]That would have never occurred to me, Jainen. Maybe it's a regional thing, I don't know. I would have called the employer to be sure the client didn't work for a day or 2 and just forgot. Was your client sober when he came in?

I actually had a customer one year who had a W-2 that they felt did not belong to them but then later realized they really did work for this employer and had just forgotten about it. I can't imagine how you would forget who you worked for, but some people have so many W-2's I guess it makes it easier to forget. May have been a job they worked in 2005 but pay periods overlap the tax year and wages were earned in 05 but received in 2006, thus the W-2 for 06.

Bonnie

[jainen]

the W-2 comes

>>I can't imagine how you would forget who you worked for<<

Sometimes the W-2 comes from a parent company or some associated group member that the company is running payroll through, or you only know the doing-business-as name and not the actual corporation.