IRS Form 1095-C for ACA Reporting in 2021

September 28th, 2020 No comments

Form 1094-C is unchanged from last year. Form 1095-C changes include: Employee’s age as of January 1 of the reporting year The IRS will now require an entry for the “Age” of each employee as of January 1, 2020. This will be in Part 2 on the 1095-C form. Use either an age or the full […]

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DC, NJ Health Insurance Mandate for 2019

October 22nd, 2019 2 comments

The District of Columbia and state of New Jersey requires reporting of 1094 and 1095 forms to verify health coverage information supplied by individual Income taxpayers. Employers and all other providers of Minimum Essential Coverage to New Jersey residents must send health-care coverage returns to the State for tax year 2019. Companies are encouraged to send […]

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Questions? Set up an appointment from technical support.

October 2nd, 2019 No comments

We can answer almost any technical support question you have and we are happy to help. The most common questions we receive are: How do I import data into your 1099FIRE software? Can you show me how? How can I electronically transmit a file to the IRS? Can you show me how to upload a […]

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New IRS Forms 1098-F, 1099-LS, 1099-SB.

July 21st, 2019 No comments

There are 3 new IRS forms for tax year 2019. Form 1098-F is not required until further notice. IRS Form 1098-F is known as Fines, Penalties, and Other Amounts is a new information return that was created from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Form 1098-F is used by government or government entities that […]

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Letter 226-J and follow up letters from the IRS.

April 24th, 2019 No comments

Letter 226-J is a penalty assessment notice that the IRS sends to employers with 50 or more full-time employees.  Letter 226-J is the first letter you would receive from the IRS and the first step the IRS has taken to enforce the ACA mandate. One of the most common reasons Letter 226-J is sent is […]

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1095-B and 1095-C Forms: How to Handle Ampersand (&)

February 21st, 2019 No comments

I put together a sample file with the following business name and street address: business name: Selitestthree & Incorporated street address: 6689 Willow & Court I generated the XML.  Our 1095 software will replace & with &amp; as the business name and show it in XML like so: <BusinessNameLine1Txt>Selitestthree &amp; Incorporated</BusinessNameLine1Txt> This is correct. The street address […]

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System Authorization Error – SysError – 2 Header-005 Header-006

February 11th, 2019 3 comments

When electronic filing the 1095-B or 1095-C forms, I have seen this error twice this year: System Authorization Error – SysError – 2 Header-005 or Header-006 Publication 5165 says: Verify that the Transmitter Control Code (TCC – included in the ACA Business Correlation ID) is valid, in the “Active” status, and authorized to transmit the Information […]

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Delete or Close BAD File through IRS FIRE System

February 7th, 2019 No comments

In the past, if you uploaded a file to the IRS and then you wanted that file deleted for whatever reason, you had to call the IRS and ask them to delete the file. That took time because you would be on hold for 45-60 minutes waiting for an IRS agent to then delete that […]

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ACA Software: How to handle the name ‘True’.

February 28th, 2018 No comments

The name True is a beautiful, wonderful English name.  But when you type in Excel a first, middle or last name of ‘True’, Excel treats the name True as a boolean expression.  And when you create the files for electronic submission to the IRS, you will see something like: <PersonFirstNm></PersonFirstNm> where the name is empty.  To […]

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ACA Software: How to void a 1095-C record.

February 27th, 2018 No comments

Void is a correction.  To void a record, you put together an excel file with the 6 extra columns which are namely First, Middle, Last, Suffix, TIN and CorrectedUniqueRecordID.  You can read about how to set up a correction at this link: https://www.1099fire.com/blog/aca-replacement-and-corrections/ The 6 extra columns pinpoint which record needs to be corrected.  To the […]

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