Stay up to date on 1095C ACA forms as an employer. Avoid pesky IRS fines with articles that give you an advantage. Filing late isn’t a problem with tax year specific articles.
Before you begin to prepare your ACA reporting, it’s important that you know what information you need in preparing Form 1095-C. We’ve compiled the following 7 key topics in our Form 1095-C Guide that may help you to correctly and timely complete your filing. Form 1095-C Guide – Key Topics Our Form 1095-C guide identifies … Read more
We’ve created Excel import spreadsheet templates to help you easily upload all of your 1095-B and 1095-C, 1099, and W-2 data. These templates are identical to the official IRS forms so that you can enter the information just as you would on paper. General Import Spreadsheet Guidelines For more in-depth or specific validation errors, you can … Read more
When the IRS made reporting Affordable Care Act (ACA) a requirement back in 2015, it made employer reporting an obligation. There are two form types that can be submitted: Form 1095-B Health Coverage & Form 1095-C Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage. Failure to fulfill the filing and furnishing obligations with the IRS results in … Read more
Today, the IRS announced the annual AIR Production cutover schedule for the Tax Year 2022/Filing Season 2023. This shutdown will affect all Affordable Care Act (ACA) transmissions, including corrections and replacements. AIR Production Cutover Schedule The system shutdown for production will begin on December 5, 2022 at 7:00 am ET. The start up date and … Read more
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the federal and state governments, employers, and insurers were given a shared responsibility to improve the availability, quality, and affordability of health coverage in the US. The Affordable Care Act’s employer shared responsibility provisions require certain employers (called applicable large employers or ALEs) to offer affordable health coverage to … Read more
Health coverage affordability is an important part of complying with the ACA’s Employer Mandate. Failing to comply can result in penalties and fines. So, how do employers determine affordability? There are three affordability safe harbors that can be used: Form W-2, Federal Poverty Line (FPL), and Rate of Pay. ACA Employer Mandate The ACA Employer … Read more
Once you have determined your common law employees and your total of full-time employees, an important detail in completing your ACA reporting is verifying your employee TINs (Tax Identification Numbers). Importance of Employee TIN Verification Failing to include an employee’s TIN, or providing the wrong TIN, could result in having your filing rejected, requiring corrections, … Read more
Every BoomTax filing license comes with free unlimited corrections submissions. We hope you never have to use them, but you should know what they are, when to submit them, why they are necessary, and how to minimize them. What Are Corrections? After you’ve submitted your information returns to the IRS, they may come back as … Read more
Perhaps one of the easiest steps of the ACA preparation process is ensuring accessibility for your employees to contact you or an agent in the event that they have questions regarding their Form 1095-C. Make sure to provide employees with a working call number or other contact option that is reachable during business hours. The … Read more
All providers of health coverage, including employers that provide self-insured plans, must file their annual returns with the IRS to report information about the coverage and each covered individual. Self-Insured Plans: Required Information For self-insured plans, the following information must be reported to the IRS: Self-insured coverage is defined as coverage where the employer assumes … Read more
When beginning your ACA filing, it is important to know who is considered a full-time employee. Determining who is considered a full-time employee may be more difficult than it initially seems. For purposes of Employer Shared Responsibility provisions, the IRS defines a full-time employee as such: “[A]n employee is a full-time employee for a calendar … Read more
One of the first steps in preparing for ACA reporting is identifying all of your common law employees. The IRS defines an employee as anyone who performs services for you if you can control what will be done and how it will be done. This includes when you have given the employee freedom of action. … Read more
Form 1095-C provides information to both the IRS and the employees regarding health coverage offered by an employer to each employee. What is Form 1095-C? For employers, Form 1095-C combined with Form 1094-C is used to determine whether an Applicable Large Employer (ALE) owes an employer shared responsibility provision (ESRP) payment under IRS section 4980H. For employees, … Read more
Have you ever been curious about how companies with more than 50 full-time and full-time equivalent employees report their health insurance coverage to the IRS? This crucial form serves a dual purpose: it acts as a cover sheet for your company’s filing and provides monthly information to demonstrate compliance with the Affordable Care Act. When … Read more
Within the past 2 years, the IRS has refined their ACA e-file process and the introduction of newer more obscure error codes is an example of this. What does error code 1095C-019-05 mean? In short, this error code indicates that you’ve used a value of $3500 or more in the employee share section (box #15) … Read more