Year-End Forms
Year-end payroll form terms for wages, corrections, summaries, and employee reporting.
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
- Form W-2
U.S. year-end wage and tax statement linking employee wages and withholding to annual filing.
- Record of Employment
Canadian payroll record used when employment stops or pay is interrupted, separate from a pay stub or T4.
- RL-1
What an RL-1 means in Canadian payroll and why it matters in Quebec year-end payroll reporting.
- T4 Summary
Employer year-end summary that ties filed T4 slips to the payroll totals reported to the CRA.
- T4A
What a T4A means in payroll, how it differs from a T4, and why the distinction matters in Canadian payroll reporting.
- 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.
Revised on Friday, April 24, 2026