Year-End Forms

This section covers year-end payroll slips, related reporting forms, and payroll record documents that summarize or document payroll information after the run itself is complete.

Use it when a term appears on a year-end payroll slip or when you need to understand how year-end reporting differs from a normal pay stub.

Current pages:

• W-2 explains the U.S. year-end wage and tax statement.
• W-3 explains the related U.S. transmittal record used in year-end wage reporting.
• W-2c explains the corrected U.S. wage statement used when a W-2 needs revision.
• T4A explains a Canadian reporting slip that should stay distinct from the T4.
• T4 Summary explains the employer-side summary tied to T4 year-end reporting.
• ROE explains the Canadian Record of Employment in payroll recordkeeping context.
• RL-1 explains the Quebec year-end payroll slip used in province-specific reporting context.
• T4 explains the Canadian year-end employment-income slip.

In this section

• RL-1
  What an RL-1 means in Canadian payroll and why it matters in Quebec year-end payroll reporting.
• ROE
  What an ROE means in Canadian payroll, when payroll uses it, and how it differs from a pay stub or a T4.
• T4 Summary
  What a T4 Summary means in Canadian payroll and how it relates to T4 year-end slip reporting.
• T4A
  What a T4A means in payroll, how it differs from a T4, and why the distinction matters in Canadian payroll reporting.
• W-2
  What Form W-2 is, what it reports, and how it connects year-end U.S. payroll reporting to employee wage and withholding records.
• W-2c
  What Form W-2c means in U.S. payroll and why it matters when year-end wage reporting needs correction.
• W-3
  What Form W-3 means in U.S. payroll and how it relates to W-2 year-end reporting.