January 31 is the new deadline to file form W-3 with the SSA

A tax law enacted by Congress in December of 2015 includes a new requirement for employers this year. All employers are now required to file their 2016 Form W-3, with copies of Form W-2, with the Social Security Administration (SSA) by January 31, 2017. In the past, employers typically had until the end of February, if filing on paper, or the end of March, if filing electronically, to submit their copies of these forms to the federal government. This new law now makes the deadlines to both give your employees a W-2, and to file those W-2s with the SSA, the same.