!Government Websites
[http://www.ssa.gov/employer/pub.htm]\\
[http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/iw2w3--2011.pdf]\\
[http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/fw2--2011.pdf]

!W2 Forms
|2-on-a-page Form|Layout has no change. (However, Box 9 - Advance EIC Payment, has been deleted from the form.)
|4 Corners Form|Layout has no change. (However, Box 9 - Advance EIC Payment, has been deleted from the form.)
|4-on-a-page Form|Layout has no change. (However, Box 9 - Advance EIC Payment, has been deleted from the form.)

%%information Note:While the W2 form layout itself has no changes, there are two new codes:
*‘DD’ in Box 12 (optional for 2011) used to report the Cost of Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage
*‘EE’ in Box 12 used to report the Designated Roth Contributions under a governmental section 457(b) plan%%

%%warning Important: For Oracle reports, RPW2/RP1099R must be run and the report sent to the PDF file instead of to the previewer.  RPW2/RP1099R aligns the W2/1099R government forms in PDF format and allows the user to adjust the parameters of 'Adjust Top Margin' and ‘Between Form Space’ fields when generating the PDF file.  Once the PDF file is generated, the Page set up does not need to be adjusted when printing.\\  \\For Windward report, RPW2 supports the 2-on-a-page form only.%%

!EFW2 File
The following record codes contain changes for tax year 2011 reporting.
*A new field, 'Kind of Employer', has been added to the RE Employer Record (position 174). This is a required field.
*A new field, 'Cost of Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage', has been added to the RW Employee Record (positions 463-473) and the RT Total Record (positions 295-309).
*A new field, 'Designated Roth Contributions Under a Governmental Section 457(b) Plan', has been added to the RO Employee Record (positions 111-121) and the RU Total Record (positions 145-159) 
 
!IDFD Changes
For 2011-2012 reporting, [IDFD] Form Code ‘HL$US-W2-2012’ is used.

!IDFD – Store Option
For 2011-2012 reporting, [IDFD] Form Code ‘HL$US-W2-2012’ has supplied the ‘Store Option’ starting from Seq# 2000 in order for [RPYEU] to store the Employer Name / Addresses, Employee Name / Addresses in the Government Remittance tables.

%%warning Important:[RPYEU] must be run with the new [IDFD] Form Code ‘HL$US-W2-2012’ or a copy of this Form Code that has the ‘Store Option’ set up to store the Names / Addresses and the Amounts in the Government Remittance Tables.\\  \\Any prior year’s Form Codes do not supply this option and therefore will not turn on the Store feature for [RPYEU].%%

!RPYEU – New Capabilities
Since 2010 tax year reporting, [RPYEU] has the following new capabilities:
#[RPYEU] now stores the Employer Name / Addresses, Employee Name / Addresses and the Amounts in the following Government Remittance Tables for historical reference purposes: [P2K_PR_GVT_RUNS] (pgr), [P2K_PR_GVT_HEADERS] (pgh), [P2K_PR_GVT_AMOUNTS] (pga)\\  \\
#After [RPYEU] is run, any release of 3.05.03 or above, will allow you to view the results on [IPGR] and [IPGH].\\Each [RPYEU] generates a GVT Run number to be viewed on [IPGR]. [UPGRUNDO] can be run to undo the GVT Run.\\  \\
#[RPYEU] parameter ‘Sort by Active/Inactive’ has been enhanced from a [X_YES_NO] toggle to use the lexicon value [X_W2_SORT_ACTIVE].\\This allows sorting of terminated employees to be before or after the ‘Sort Level’ that is defined in the prompt.  Read the [RPYEU Sort Level|W2 Process#RPYEUSortLevel] section below.
#W2 Form (2-on-a-page) Box D - Control Number field size has lots of space, allowing more information to be printed.\\Box D is derived from the [IDFDV] Field Identifier - W2-CONTROL-PRT; value 3 to 6 are added as below.

;W2-CONTROL-PRT:Specifies if the Control Number should be printed on the form or not
|Null, 0|Do not print Control Number on W2 Form
|1|Print Control Number as defined in W2-CONTROL-NUM Identifier
|2|Print Control Number as defined from RPYEU ‘Sort Level By’ prompt
|3|Print W2-CONTROL-NUM Identifier and Person Code
|4|Print ‘Sort Level By’ prompt and Person Code
|5|Print ‘Sort Level By’ prompt and W2-CONTROL-NUM Identifier
|6|Print ‘Sort Level By’ prompt and W2-CONTROL-NUM Identifier and Person Code

!RPW2 – capabilities (Oracle Report Only)
Since 2010-tax year reporting, RPW2 has the following capabilities in the Oracle version report (but not the Windward version).

*There are different copies of the W2 form that can be distributed to the employees and sent to the government: Copy A, 1, B, C, 2, D.
*RPW2 provides options to print different copies of the W2 forms and the Employee Instructions on the back.
*There is an option to either print the W2 forms on the pre-printed W2 forms or to show Copy A, 1, B, C, 2, D of the W2 forms for printing.
*W2 Form Copy A, 1, B, C, 2, D and instructions are taken directly from the government link above, however, it is the user’s responsibility to ensure these Employee copies are acceptable by the government as substitute for the pre-printed forms prior to distributing to the employees.