71.71 Wages subject to withholding.
(1) Statement employer must furnish to employee.
(a) Every person, partnership or limited liability company required to deduct and withhold from an employee under the general withholding provisions of subch. X shall furnish to each such employee in respect of the remuneration paid by such person, partnership or company to such employee during the calendar year, on or before January 31 of the succeeding year, or if his or her employment is terminated before the close of any such calendar year on the day on which the last payment of remuneration is made, 2 legible copies of a written statement showing the following:
1. The name of such person, partnership or limited liability company, and that person's, partnership's or company's Wisconsin income tax identification number, if any.
2. The name of the employee and the employee's social security number, if any, or other number required by the department.
3. The total amount of wages as defined in s. 71.63 (6).
4. The total amount deducted and withheld as required by the general withholding provisions of subch. X.
(b) The employee shall furnish the department of revenue one copy of such written statement along with his or her return for the year.
(2) Statement employer must file. Every person required to deduct and withhold from an employee under subch. X shall file, in respect to remuneration paid by the person to the employee during the calendar year, on or before January 31 of the succeeding year, one copy of the statement under sub. (1), except that, if the statement includes a number other than the employee's social security number, the statement filed shall include the employee's social security number.
History: 1987 a. 312; 1991 a. 39; 1993 a. 112; 1997 a. 27; 2017 a. 59, 324.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 71 - Income and franchise taxes for state and local revenues.
71.03 - Filing returns; certain claims.
71.04 - Situs of income; allocation and apportionment.
71.09 - Payment of estimated taxes.
71.16 - Allocation of modifications.
71.24 - Filing returns; extensions; payment of tax.
71.25 - Situs of income; allocation and apportionment.
71.265 - Previously exempt corporations; basis and depreciation.
71.29 - Payments of estimated taxes.
71.35 - Imposition of additional tax on tax-option corporations.
71.385 - Determination of cost.
71.44 - Filing returns; extensions; payment of tax.
71.48 - Payments of estimated taxes.
71.54 - Computation of credit.
71.613 - Farmland preservation credit, 2010 and beyond.
71.64 - Employers required to withhold.
71.65 - Filing returns or reports.
71.66 - Employee exemption certificates.
71.71 - Wages subject to withholding.
71.715 - Wages not subject to withholding.
71.72 - Statement of nonwage payments.
71.74 - Department audits, additional assessments and refunds.
71.745 - Pass-through entity audits, additional assessments and refunds at the entity level.
71.76 - Internal revenue service and other state adjustments.
71.77 - Statutes of limitations, assessments and refunds; when permitted.
71.775 - Withholding from nonresident members of pass-through entities.
71.78 - Confidentiality provisions.
71.80 - General administrative provisions.
71.805 - Tax avoidance transactions voluntary compliance program.
71.81 - Disclosing reportable transactions.
71.88 - Time for filing an appeal.
71.90 - Depositing contested amounts.
71.91 - Collection provisions.
71.93 - Setoffs for other state agencies.