Many clients have approached us to efile prior year 1095-B and 1095-C data. Both originals and corrections can be electronically filed for prior tax years. Here are the steps:
- Use the prior year ACA software to generate the data file. The header and body of the XML data file must match schema for that particular prior year.
- Use the current year ACA software to generate the manifest file. But you need to make changes to the 2016 manifest file.
- When your generate the manifest file, the software asks for ‘payment year’ and ‘are you efiling a prior year’ and whether the file is an original or correction. Select the prior year payment year, yes that are efiling a prior year, and whether the file is an original or correction.
- Change the Software IDs in the manifest file to reflect the prior year software IDs. The current list of Software IDs is here:
2017 17A0005496 1095-C
2017 17A0005495 1095-B
2016 16A0003317 1095-C
2016 16A0003316 1095-B
2015 15A0000123 1095-C
2015 15A0000124 1095-B
Those are the steps. If you have any problem efiling prior year ACA data, call or email us anytime. We can efile on your behalf. Just call our sales office at (480) 460-9311 and they can get you started. If you have your data ready, we can typically efile the same day you provide the data.