1691119 - How to allocate tax payments that are not VAT-related - SAP Business ByDesign

• You are importing a bank statement which contains transactions representing tax-payments which are not VAT-related (for example, corporate income tax, reunification tax - Germany).
• Now you attempt to allocate those payments to corresponding G/L accounts in the resulting payment allocations.

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1. Go to Cash and Liquidity Management work center.
2. Go to Bank Statements view and select the relevant bank statement.
3. In the column Postprocessing follow the link that leads you to the relevant payment allocation.

• Non-VAT relevant payments are allocated via the tab Other Allocation.
• For corresponding G/L Accounts to be selectable, the account determination must be set up adequately in the Business Configuration.

1. Go to Business Configuration work center.
2. Go to Fine Tuning Activity Charts of Accounts, Financial Reporting Structures, Account Determination / Edit Account Determination Groups.
3. Under Group Types by Ledger, choose General Ledger / Groups for Other Liabilities.
4. Here you define a Group ID XYZ representing the tax payable.

The actual account determination takes effect via:

1. Charts of Accounts, Financial Reporting Structures, Account Determination / General Ledger.
2. Go to tab Others and choose from the drop-down list: Other Liabilities.
3. For Account Determination Group XYZ choose the corresponding account ABC.

After finishing these steps, you should be able to allocate tax payments to the designated G/L accounts.

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