Hi,

My accountant is filing for me. I prepared the files and sent her the
backup. When she tried to validate it, she received the following
message.

"Yes, the backup files is what we need. However, when I try to validate
them through the software before uploading them to the IRS website, I am
getting the following error message:

ERROR (Line 27): The
'urn:us:gov:treasury:irs:ext:aca:air:ty16:Form1095CAttachedCnt' element
is invalid - The value '' is invalid according to its datatype
'urn:us:gov:treasury:irs:ext:aca:air:ty16:TotalNumberType' - The Pattern
constraint failed"

Can you please tell me what I need to fix for her?

Best, Marsha

Thank you for contacting us. Based on the error message, you submitted the file for 1095C. Did you submitted the wrong file?

Thank you.

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