What date will companies send out W2s to their employees for calendar year 2006?

Answer 1

By law they must be postmarked by January 31st 2007.

Answer 2

Everyone is correct. The legal deadline is the end of January. If you want to get a jump on computing your taxes, the 'year to date' section of your last pay-stub issued in 2006 will have the same numbers. Just be sure to double check before sending in your return. Note: if you receive a check on Jan 1, 2007, it counts as 2007 income even if all the pay is for time worked in Dec 2006.

Answer 3

I believe the law requires w-2's be mailed out no later than 30 days after the end of the calendar year, ie. January 30th.

Answer 4

Generally by the end of Jan. of the tax year. Jan. 2007 for taxable year 2006. Hope this helps.

Answer 5

I thought that they have a limit of a month to send them out. But the actual time limit varies from company to company. I got mine 2 weeks into Jan. last year.

Answer 6

They MUST by law postmark your W-2's by January 31, 2007.

Answer 7

They have to be sent out by the end of January of 2007.

Answer 8

Sometime in January, sometimes companies try to be nice and get them out as soon as possible, like early January, but sometimes it can push into February if your company slacks off. (They could mail them out as late as the last day of January. . . .)

Answer 9

the deadline is Jan 31. You might start getting them as early as the first of the year.

Answer 10

They MUST be postmarked no later than Jan. 31st.