<p>Okay, so my parents’ W2 forms are divided into 4 rectangles, </p>
<p>top left saying COPY B - to be filed with employee’s federal tax return, </p>
<p>Top right saying COPY 2 - to be filed with employee’s state, city, or local income tax return,</p>
<p>Bottom left saying COPY C - for employee’s records</p>
<p>Bottom right saying Copy 2 - to be filed with employee’s state, city, or local income tax return</p>
<p>This 2012 W2 form looks different from the last year’s because last year’s was a long strip and this year’s has four boxes.</p>
<p>Anyway, the IDOC instruction says: Do not copy more than one W-2 form on a single sheet of paper.</p>
<p>What I am confused about is whether just to make copies of my mom’s and dad’s (entire four rectangles) W-2 forms separately on 2 different sheets of paper</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>whether to make copies of my parents’ (just top left box that says Copy B - to be filed with Employee’s Federal tax return) W-2 forms separately on 2 different sheets of paper.</p>
<p>Thank you in advance.</p>
<p>I would say (as I am reading it) to copy the Copy C (the one made for records).</p>
<p>copy any one box - doesn’t matter whether it’s copy B or C, they’re all the same except for that one letter. There are many formats for the W2, usually with 4 copies, but sometimes with only 3. You just need to copy one of them (yes, a waste of paper, but that’s what they want, probably because they feed the whole stack into a scanner, and it’s just easier to have everything on a single page.</p>
<p>Just took this to mean that we had to make sure all the W-2s were separated by SS# so don’t copy mom and dad on the same page, or copy student and parent on the same page. </p>
<p>Didn’t focus on state copy vs federal copy b/c the info is the same so didn’t matter which one was on the page. Or that both those (belonging to same person) were copied on one page. Woops!</p>
<p>^^Yup, that is how I interpreted the instructions - don’t put two different W-2s on one sheet of copy paper.</p>
<p>It’s not just about separating by social security number. They want each individual W2 on a separate page, even if one person has more than one job. If Dad has one job, mom has 3 seasonal jobs, and Son has 2, there would be a total of 6 pages, not one page for each SSN.</p>