Electronic W-2 and W2c Filing

Employers filing 250 or more W-2s or corrected W-2s must file them electronically unless granted a waiver from the IRS.

PeopleSoft Global Payroll for United States enables you to generate the following files:

File Usage

EFW2

Transmit W-2 data electronically.

EFW2C

Transmit corrected W-2 data electronically.

Note:

Employers filing electronically don't have to file a transmittal of Wage and Tax Statement.

Steps Required to Prepare and Create Electronic Output

The following steps are required to prepare and create electronic output files:

  1. Define EFW2 reporting parameters.

  2. Create the EFW2 file.

  3. Run the EFW2 Federal Audit report

  4. Create the state EFW2 file.

  5. Run the EFW2 State Audit report.

  6. Create the EFW2C file.

  7. Run the EFW2C Federal Audit report.

Further details for these steps are discussed subsequently.