NYS Tax Department Modernizes Withholding Tax and Wage Reporting Experience for Businesses
Improvements Streamline Reporting, Reduce Errors, and Make it Easier for Businesses to File
For Release: Immediate, Thursday, March 27, 2025
For media inquiries only, contact: Ryan Cleveland, 518-457-7377
The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance announced major improvements to the forms and applications used by businesses to file withholding tax and report wages.
Employers can now electronically file all withholding tax returns, including amended returns, using online applications that will automatically perform mathematical calculations to decrease errors.
The following updated applications are now available through the Tax Department’s Business Online Services accounts:
- NYS-1 Web File
- NYS-45 Web File
- NYS-1 Upload
- NYS-45 Upload
Instructional videos are available to help familiarize businesses with the new NYS-1 Web File and NYS-45 Web File applications.
To ensure that returns are efficiently processed, businesses should use only the publications, file formats, and forms posted on the Tax Department’s website after March 24, 2025.
More information about the Tax Department’s withholding tax and wage reporting upgrades is available at www.tax.ny.gov (search: withholding). To stay up to date with withholding tax news, subscribe to the Department’s Withholding tax emails.