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When can you file a tax return using your last pay stub?

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If you didn't even have a last pay stub, or a W-2, you still legally HAVE to file your income tax forms and pay by April 15 of the following year.

If you filed, using any information from anything but the required sources, most of which are already filed with the IRS by the one giving it ti you, you will be suspect and have to refile. A paycheck stub, while having much info, is NOT he form required to be submitted.

When you do get the information on say a W-2, if it doesn't match what you filed, you will have to amend and correct your filing.

However, you should wait for several reasons: The return likely won't be processed until the employer has filed all his reports (generally due by 01/31), and they can be matched to what your claiming.

The information on the W-2 may have year end adjustments, additions, etc that don't match your last stub. Tha will delay your retuirn for a long time while the dicrepency is resolved - and rthen you will have to file an amended return.

Some information you need to report, certain employer ID#s etc may not be available on a pay stub.

If it is available, you are really required to use it or explain why you didn't have one, using another complex form.

You want to use the best information available and follow the established process as best you can, or expect problems!

And as you hear about "quick refunds, etc being advertised, don't be confused:

The W-2 and/or 1099s MUST be submitted with the formal return.

Some tax preparers have a LOAN process, where by using your last check to prove to THEM that you have overpaid your tax and will be getting a refund, they will give you a loan against that eventual refund (which you actually get when the real return, using the correct forms (not a paycheck stub) is filed. (And then THEY must prepare that return, which they charge you many times the normal rate to do....it's called business!)

These "quick refund" loans - by whatever name they may go under - are becoming illegal and regulated in many areas as they ave been the source of many abusive loan practices, are ALWAYS such a bad deal it almost amounts to thievery and should never be done as simply being about the most foolish financial thing possible.

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