multiple employer plan and form 5558

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Based on the Advisory Opinion that was published on 5/25/12 that open multiple employer plans are separate ERISA plans, we are now doing a Form 5500 for each adopting employer of the multiple employer plan and not just one as we have done in the past.

Issue: We filed one extension on behalf of our multiple employer plan for 2012. We completed the Form 5558 using the Plan Sponsor's EIN under the FIler's identifying number. We are now reading the instructions for the Form 5558 that seem to indicate that the Employer's EIN should have been used and we should have filed 15 different Form 5558 and not one.

Did anyone else file multiple Form 5500s for their Multiple Employer Plans? Did you file extensions? And if so, did you file one or more extension?

Please advise.