Announcement: ACA AIR Communications Test for 2016 Reporting Patches have been released

Oracle EBS Development is happy to announce that the following patches have been released for Oracle EBS Release 12.1 or 12.2 Benefits Customers needing to Perform the ACA AIR Communications Test for 2016 Reporting:

12.1 - Patch 25475398:R12.BEN.B

12.2 - Patch 25475398:R12.BEN.C

IMPORTANT NOTES: 

• The above patch (applicable to your release) only needs to applied and the setup and processing steps performed by those EBS Benefits customers who are either transmitting their ACA employer information returns to the IRS for the first time (in Tax Year (TY) 2016) or are using EBS Benefits to transmit their ACA employer information returns to the IRS for the first time. This means if you filed ACA employer information return(s) for TY2015 information using the EBS Benefits application, then you do not need to perform the communication test again for TY2016.