I'm pending on a bunch of suppressors, and decided yesterday to register some AR15 Lowers as SBRs and a Remington 870 as an SBS. Everything I've read about the e-form deal made it sound prettly slick. When the .gov turned back on yesterday, I registered at the site and filled out 4 form 1s. The system froze, deleted all of my forms, and sent me the following email.
I'll just try again, I'm not complaining. What I wanted to pass along is that the system will allow you to put multiple line items in one single form 1. That doesn't jive with the rules and they won't accept it, according to the letter below.
Important Notice to eForm users that submit electronic ATF Forms 1 and 4:
This is to advise that ATF eForms is experiencing issues with the pay.gov link that prevents the filing of taxpaid eForms 1 and 4. The pay.gov function had to move to a secondary site last week due to some of its own issues. ATF’s firewall security is preventing communications to this secondary site from within eForms. We are in the process of working with the Department of Justice to allow the ATF firewall to communicate with the pay.gov secondary site.
All other eForms may be submitted. eForms 1 and 4 may be created and saved, just not submitted until we have notified you that the issue has been resolved.
We would also like to advise that the taxpaid eForm 1 and eForm 4 were designed for the submission of one firearm per application (as the tax is paid per firearm and the PDF will generate with the transfer tax stamp affixed). A glitch allows the submission of multiple firearms on these forms, but we can only process a form with one firearm on it. Please keep this in mind when you file a taxpaid eForm 1 or 4.
If you have submitted a taxpaid eForm 1 or eForm 4 with multiple firearms on it, please contact Lee Alston-Williams at (202) 648-7166 or Gary Schaible at (202) 648-7165, as corrective action will need to be taken.
Thank you for your interest in eForms.
I'll just try again, I'm not complaining. What I wanted to pass along is that the system will allow you to put multiple line items in one single form 1. That doesn't jive with the rules and they won't accept it, according to the letter below.
Important Notice to eForm users that submit electronic ATF Forms 1 and 4:
This is to advise that ATF eForms is experiencing issues with the pay.gov link that prevents the filing of taxpaid eForms 1 and 4. The pay.gov function had to move to a secondary site last week due to some of its own issues. ATF’s firewall security is preventing communications to this secondary site from within eForms. We are in the process of working with the Department of Justice to allow the ATF firewall to communicate with the pay.gov secondary site.
All other eForms may be submitted. eForms 1 and 4 may be created and saved, just not submitted until we have notified you that the issue has been resolved.
We would also like to advise that the taxpaid eForm 1 and eForm 4 were designed for the submission of one firearm per application (as the tax is paid per firearm and the PDF will generate with the transfer tax stamp affixed). A glitch allows the submission of multiple firearms on these forms, but we can only process a form with one firearm on it. Please keep this in mind when you file a taxpaid eForm 1 or 4.
If you have submitted a taxpaid eForm 1 or eForm 4 with multiple firearms on it, please contact Lee Alston-Williams at (202) 648-7166 or Gary Schaible at (202) 648-7165, as corrective action will need to be taken.
Thank you for your interest in eForms.
