{"id":4843,"date":"2017-09-27T09:17:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T13:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/?p=4843"},"modified":"2021-03-27T16:07:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T20:07:41","slug":"truncated-social-security-numbers-on-w-2s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/truncated-social-security-numbers-on-w-2s\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposal: Truncated Social Security Numbers on W-2s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4844\" src=\"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-176710314-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"truncated social security numbers on w-2s\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-176710314-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-176710314-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-176710314-1080x723.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-176710314.jpg 1252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>In an effort to help protect individual identities from theft, the IRS has recently proposed permitting truncated Social Security numbers on W-2s. Employers would be voluntarily allowed to use truncated SSNs on the copies of Form W-2 distributed to employees. The numbers would appear as IRS truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs).<\/p>\n<p>The proposal also states that employees who report third-party sick pay are allowed to have their SSN truncated on their W-2 copy, and employees that receive wages in the form of group-term life insurance are allowed the same.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full proposal <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/public-inspection.federalregister.gov\/2017-19910.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. The IRS is allowing public comments on these proposed regulations until December 18, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to help protect individual identities from theft, the IRS has recently proposed permitting truncated Social Security numbers on W-2s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[26,66,47],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-4843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gtm-biz-blog-isolved","tag-irs","tag-social-security","tag-w-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4846,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions\/4846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4843"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=4843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}