Question

Which of the following statements about the W-2 form is TRUE? A. The W-2 includes information about the interest you earned from your investments B. You need a separate W-2 form from EACH of your employers in order to file your taxes C. The total wages you earned from ALL jobs you worked in the previous year appear on ONE W-2 form D. A W-2 lists all the money you earned in cash over the last year

Answer 1

Answer:

B. You need a separate W-2 form from EACH of your employers in order to file your taxes.

Explanation:

Taxation can be defined as the involuntary or compulsory fees levied on individuals or business entities by the government to generate revenues used for funding public institutions and activities.

In order to ensure that, all employees pay taxes on the income earned throughout the year, the internal revenue service (IRS) has made it compulsory and mandatory for all employers to make available a W-2 Form to all their employees, so as to enable these employees fill out the total amount of wages, how much income tax is to be withheld from their respective paycheck in relation to their filing status and how much was paid as tax the previous year. Therefore, a W-2 form is used by an employer to report the wages paid to each employee, calculate how much tax should be withheld from his or her employee's paycheck and submitted to the internal revenue service (IRS).

Additionally, any employee who defaults in the payment of his or her income tax would be faced with stiff penalties such as failure-to-file, paying a fine etc.

Hence, the true statement regarding a W-2 form is that, as an employer you need a separate W-2 form from each of your employers in order to file your taxes.