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Getting Help with UW Employee Tax Statements
Overview
UW Shared Services (UWSS) - Service Operations generates tax documentation for all UW Employees. Current UW employees can find tax statements at my.wisconsin.edu. Employees can also obtain older tax statements by request.Process Considerations:
- Former employees - You will not be able to access the tax documents after your termination date.
Tax Season advisory for UW Employees from the UW Shared Services - Service Operations Payroll Team
- Review/Update your address information by January 15th in my.wisconsin.edu or my.wisc.edu portal and make any needed changes to ensure your preferred address is used for tax statement distribution.
- Unless you have consented to receiving only an electronic copy of your tax statement(s), your tax form(s) will be sent via U.S. mail to your mailing address.
- If you do not have an alternate mailing address set, your tax statements will be mailed to your home address.
- If neither address is in the portal, your tax statements will be mailed to your work/office location.
Add Consent for Electronic W-2 or 1095-C forms
- On the Payroll tile, click W-2/W-2c Consent.or Benefits and Well Being tile and select ACA > 1095-C consent.
- Click the relative tax statement consent link (W-2 or 1095-C)
- Consent to receive W-2 electronically or Consent to receive 1095-C electronically.
- Review the consent information.
- Click the box to acknowledge consent.
- Click Submit.
Remove Consent For Electronic W-2 or 1095-C Forms
- Access the my.wisconsin.edu or my.wisc.edu (Madison only) portal.
- On the Payroll tile, click W-2/W-2c Consent.or Benefits and Well Being tile and select ACA > 1095-C consent.
- Click the relative tax statement consent link (W-2 or 1095-C)
- Click the checkbox “I withdraw my consent to receive (tax statement name) forms electronically”
- Click Submit.
Printing W-2 and/or 1095-C
NOTE: a copy can be printed even if you did not consent to only electronic forms.
- On the Payroll tile click W-2 Employee Self Service, or Benefits and Well Being tile and select ACA > 1095-C.
- Select the document to print.
Requesting Duplicate Tax Statements
- W-2: You can request your past years' tax statements by completing the Duplicate Tax Statement Form.
- 1095-C: Contact the UWSS Service Operations Support staff to have your 1095-C printed and emailed to you.
Reviewing/Updating Information
- Click the My Information tile.
- For additional instructions on how to update your address information: https://uwservice.wisc.edu/help/personal-information.php
- If you have questions regarding updating your address information, please contact your Payroll/Staff Benefits coordinator.
Forwarding Addresses & Failure to send tax statements
If you have forwarded your mail via USPS but have not updated your address with the UW System, the original mailing of your tax statement will be returned to UWSS Service Operations and re-mailed to the correct address at a later date. There is no timeline for the re-sending of tax statements that are returned with forwarding addresses, but they will eventually be sent out at the time that the UWSS Service Operations feels that all tax statements have been returned from USPS after the initial round of tax statement mailings.
Items returned to UWSS Service Operations without a forwarding address are kept on file at the UWSS Service Operations for 5 years.
1095-C Form Required for UW Employees Filing Taxes
The University of Wisconsin (UW) must file Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 1095-C to report and document that full-time UW employees were offered health insurance coverage during the previous calendar year.The UW will also provide all UW employees who were full-time for all or some months of the previous year with a copy of their Form 1095-C. UW employees will need the Form 1095-C they receive from the UW as part of their documentation requirement when filing taxes.
- Form 1095-C will be mailed, unless consent is completed to only receive electronic copy of this form, to UW employees in early February at the same address as the W-2 Forms.
- An electronic copy of the form will also be available in the my.wisconsin.edu or my.wisc.edu portal, on the Payroll Information tile, click Tax Statements.
Tax Fraud
UW Employees should contact their institutional payroll office if they suspect that some type tax fraud had occurred. Employees should also follow the IRS guidelines for reporting suspected tax fraud activities.
Report Tax Fraud to IRS - https://www.irs.gov/individuals/how-do-you-report-suspected-tax-fraud-activity