Form 4852: Substitute for Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement, or Form 1099-R
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IRS Form 4852, Substitute for Form W-2 or Form 1099-R, is the form you attach to your tax return when an employer or payer never sent your W-2 or 1099-R, or sent one that is wrong and will not correct it. You estimate your wages and withholding — usually from your final pay stub — and explain how you calculated the numbers and how you tried to get the missing form. With JustFill you upload the blank IRS Form 4852 PDF, the AI auto-detects every field, you type or dictate your answers, and you download the completed form free.
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Employer went out of business, ghosted you, or sent a W-2 with the wrong numbers? IRS Form 4852 is the official substitute for a missing or incorrect Form W-2 or Form 1099-R. You reconstruct your wages, retirement distributions, and tax withheld — your final pay stub of the year is the best source — and file the form attached to your Form 1040 so you can still file on time. Before using it, the IRS expects you to ask the employer or payer for the form and then contact the IRS, which will reach out to the employer for you. JustFill makes the PDF fillable in your browser: the AI auto-detects every field, you type or dictate your figures, and you download the completed Form 4852 free.
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Your name, SSN, address, and the tax year the missing or incorrect form covers.
The name, address, and TIN (if you know it — check an old pay stub) of the employer or payer who should have issued the form.
Check whether you are substituting for a Form W-2 or a Form 1099-R.
Your best estimate of wages, Social Security and Medicare wages, federal income tax withheld, and state/local tax withheld.
For retirement distributions: gross and taxable amounts, distribution codes, and tax withheld.
Explain your source — for example, the year-end figures from your final pay stub or account statements.
Describe how you tried to get the W-2 or 1099-R, including contacting the employer or payer and the IRS.
A fictional employee whose employer closed in November is filing Form 4852 using figures from the final year-to-date pay stub.
JORDAN EXAMPLE — XXX-XX-4321
Masked on purpose; enter your own name and SSN.
2025
EXAMPLE RETAIL LLC, 200 SAMPLE AVE, DALLAS, TX 75201
Wages: $42,500.00 | Federal tax withheld: $4,120.00
Copied from the final pay stub dated November 30.
Year-to-date totals from final pay stub dated 11/30/2025 and matching bank direct-deposit records.
These values are made up. They are here to show what belongs on each line, not to be copied — every name, number, and address on your own Form 4852 has to be your own. Always use your actual pay records and follow the IRS timeline before substituting Form 4852 for a missing W-2 or 1099-R.
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Official source: Form 4852 on IRS’s website
Edition checked: Rev. October 2020. Verified against the official source on · Verified in our Government Forms Fillability Study.
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