The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Office of the Comptroller
One Ashburton Place, Room 901
Boston, Massachusetts 02108
MEDICARE TAX REFUND REQUEST FORM
Please complete, sign and submit this form to request a Medicare tax refund from the Office of the Comptroller.
Departments must submit one Medicare Tax Refund Request form for every tax year the employee is due a
refund. Please keep a copy of this form in the employee ’s personnel file at your department ’s payroll office for
auditing purposes.
Employee Name:_________________________________________________ Employee ID #: __________________
(Print Employee’s Name)
(Print Employee’s ID)
Employee SSN: __________________________________________________Department:______________________
(Print Employee’s Social Security Number)
(Print 3-letter Department code)
Dept Contact Name: ______________________________________________Tel #: ___________________________
(Print Name of Person filling out form and their telephone number)
Email Address of Dept Contact: _____________________________________________________________________
Medicare Tax Refund Request
Total Amount of
Amount of Medicare
Medicare Wages: $_________________________________
tax refund (1.45% of wages): $________________
(Enter total amount of Employee’ s Medicare Wages)
(Calculate 1.45% of Employee’ s Medicare Wages)
If refund is for the current tax year, check this box and indicate the tax year in the space provided below:
Current Tax Year
For Tax Year: __________________
Departments must include a screen print of the employee’ s Medicare tax year-to-date balance with each current tax year
request. The year-to-date tax balance can be found in the HR/CMS Tax Balance panel under tax class FICA Med Hospital
Ins/EE (Navigation: Go/Compensate Employees/Maintain Payroll Data/Inquire/Tax Balances).
If refund is for a prior tax year, check this box and indicate the tax year in the space provided below:
Prior Tax Year
For Tax Year: ___________________
Departments must include completed Forms W-2C and W-3C and copies of prior year W2s with each prior tax year request.
Instructions for filing W-2Cs and W-3Cs can be found in the Comptroller’ s Fiscal Year Policy memo 2001-12 on the
Comptroller’ s website:
Medicare Tax Refund Request Form 2/22/01
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