{"id":1627,"date":"2009-08-29T21:10:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T01:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2009-08-29T21:31:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T01:31:15","slug":"ma-dor-proposes-changes-to-form-w-2-filing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2009\/08\/ma-dor-proposes-changes-to-form-w-2-filing\/","title":{"rendered":"MA DOR Proposes Changes to Form W-2 Filing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the recently released, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/?pageID=dorterminal&amp;L=7&amp;L0=Home&amp;L1=Businesses&amp;L2=Help+%26+Resources&amp;L3=Legal+Library&amp;L4=Directives&amp;L5=Directives+-+By+Decade&amp;L6=(2000-2009)+Directives&amp;sid=Ador&amp;b=terminalcontent&amp;f=dor_rul_reg_dir_dir_09_xx_withholding&amp;csid=Ador\" target=\"_blank\">Working Draft Directive 09-XX, <em>Requirements for Employers Filing Year-end Withholding Information<\/em><\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/?pageID=dorhomepage&amp;L=1&amp;L0=Home&amp;sid=Ador\" target=\"_blank\">Massachusetts Department of Revenue (DOR)<\/a> proposes changes to the definition of \u201cmachine-readable form\u201d. Employers who file fifty or more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/pub\/irs-pdf\/fw2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Forms W-2<\/a> in a calendar year are required to file them in machine-readable form. For 2009 and later, the definition of machine-readable form will no longer include diskette, magnetic tape, or cartridge 18-track magnetic media. Filing must be done through <a href=\"https:\/\/wfb.dor.state.ma.us\/webfile\/business\/Public\/Webforms\/Login\/Login.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">WebFile for Business<\/a> or electronic data transfer. Contact <a href=\"mailto:info@visionpayroll.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Payroll<\/a> if you have any questions on the proposed changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the recently released, Working Draft Directive 09-XX, Requirements for Employers Filing Year-end Withholding Information, the Massachusetts Department of Revenue (DOR) proposes changes to the definition of \u201cmachine-readable form\u201d. Employers who file fifty or more Forms W-2 in a calendar year are required to file them in machine-readable form. For 2009 and later, the definition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[243,224,13,1020],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1633,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/1633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}