text: is there any way to get old w-2's? i work for a company who has an employee in need of their w-2 forms from 1995 to 1998.  i was wondering if there is any other way to find them, perhaps online through the irs, so i do not have to spend a whole day in the back of a dark, dirty trailer.  please help if you can....thanks! as far as i am concerned, that is way too long ago for you to spend time digging them up.  it is past the time frame that you need to keep records for.... have the employee contact the irs... even they may not have the records still.  (they will have to call the irs.)  why do they need w-2s from that long ago anyway?