Pennsylvania Updates Specifications for Electronic File Imports

May 23, 2017

Paul Ogawa

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Sovos

This blog was last updated on June 26, 2021

Pennsylvania recently updated the file imports for their W-2 Employee Wage Records and 1099-MISC Distribution. These file imports are used by employers to report W-2 and 1099-MISC data to the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue. The changes made are as follows:

Employer W-2 Employee Wage Records: For the Fields “PA Income Tax Withheld”, “Taxable Compensation”, and “Gross Distribution”, the data format instructs filers they must not enter negative values.
1099-MISC Distribution: For the fields “Rents”, “Royalties”, “Non-employee Compensation”, “PA State Income”, and “State Tax Withheld”, the data format instructs filers they must not enter negative values.

To review these changes and the data formats in full, please click on the links provided above.

Paul Ogawa

Paul Ogawa is a Senior Regulatory Counsel at Sovos Compliance. As part of the Regulatory Analysis team, his main areas of focus are state and federal tax withholding, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and Canadian tax information reporting. Prior to Sovos, Paul worked as a litigation attorney in Boston area law firms, representing clients in insurance subrogation claims, family law matters, and employment disputes. Paul is a member of the Massachusetts Bar, earned his B.A. from Brandeis University and his J.D. from the Suffolk University Law School.

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