The IRS acknowledges the receipt of every electronic information report. These reports are filed using the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 standards for electronic data interchange (EDI). The EDI standard for filing tax or information reports is the TS813 Transaction Set (Electronic Filing of Tax Return Data). There are two types of acknowledgment (ACK) files that will be created by the IRS, the Transmission ACK File and the Validation ACK File.

These ACK files will be placed in the Information Provider's mailbox and an email will be generated back to the Information Provider providing notification that an ACK file is available for retrieval.

The EDI Error Identification Document is designed to help you manage the validation ACK file or the ANSI TS-151. Download this file (adobe acrobat) for the latest 151 instructions.

EDI Error Identification Document - error_id.pdf

The following tab delimited text files contain the most current 151 error codes used by the IRS to identify errors found in motor fuel reports. The information contained in these files replace the code found on pages 41 and 42 of the IRS ExSTARS EDI guide Rev 0.941- July 25, 2000. These files are as follows:

151 PBI01 Primary Error Codes List - PBI01PC.txt *
151 PBI01 Secondary Error Codes List - PBI01SC.txt *
151 PBI03 Primary Error Codes List - PBI03PC.txt *
151 PBI03 Secondary Error Codes List - PBI03SC.txt *
151 PBI04 Error Codes List - PBI04PC.txt *
Product Codes - prodcode.txt *
Carrier Codes - carrcode.txt *
Zip Achive of the 7-files above - error.zip

*Note: you may need to load the page into your browser--then save the file in a text format.