{"id":1424,"date":"2024-11-12T16:02:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T20:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2024-11-12T16:02:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T20:02:59","slug":"the-irs-announces-aca-air-shutdown-reopening-for-filing-season-2025-tax-year-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/payroll\/the-irs-announces-aca-air-shutdown-reopening-for-filing-season-2025-tax-year-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The IRS Announces ACA AIR Shutdown \/ Reopening for Filing Season 2025 (Tax Year 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Here&#8217;s a summary of the IRS announcement: <br \/><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AIR Production Environment Shutdown:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Begins: Sunday, December 8, 2024, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time<\/li><li>Affects: All transmissions, including corrections and replacements<\/li><li>Purpose: Preparation for Filing Season 2025\/Tax Year 2024<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Do Not Access:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Application to Application (A2A) channel<\/li><li>User Interface (UI) channel<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AIR Production Environment Start-up:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Resumes: Friday, January 10, 2025, 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AIR Assurance Testing System (AATS):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Remains available during Production Shutdown<\/li><li>Exception: Routine maintenance every Sunday<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Important:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Monitor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eitc.irs.gov\/air-status\">AIR Operational Status page<\/a> for updates<\/li><li>This affects Transmitters, Software Developers, and Issuers<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p> 1095-C \/ 1094-C Filers can Utilize our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/aca-1095-1094-software\/\"><strong>1095 Mate software<\/strong><\/a> to print and e-File ACA forms with IRS AIR System.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a summary of the IRS announcement: AIR Production Environment Shutdown: Begins: Sunday, December 8, 2024, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time Affects: All transmissions, including corrections and replacements Purpose: Preparation for Filing Season 2025\/Tax Year 2024 Do Not Access: Application to Application (A2A) channel User Interface (UI) channel AIR Production Environment Start-up: Resumes: Friday, January 10, &#8230; <a title=\"The IRS Announces ACA AIR Shutdown \/ Reopening for Filing Season 2025 (Tax Year 2024)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/payroll\/the-irs-announces-aca-air-shutdown-reopening-for-filing-season-2025-tax-year-2024\/\" aria-label=\"More on The IRS Announces ACA AIR Shutdown \/ Reopening for Filing Season 2025 (Tax Year 2024)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-payroll"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}