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1867681 - Error Message: Company tax arrangement for federal tax authority is missing or incomplete. For reporting purposes, the employer must have a valid company tax arrangement.

Symptom

When you try to complete the payroll date, System throws below error message

Company tax arrangement for federal tax authority is missing or incomplete. For reporting purposes, the employer must have valid company tax arrangement.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Personnel Administration work center
  2. Choose the Work view.
  3. Choose the open task.
  4. Under open task choose the Complete Payroll Data - US (Hire) for XYZ (XYZ represents the ID of an employee)..
  5. Choose the Edit .
  6. Complete Payroll Data screen will appear select the USHR - US bi-weekly under payroll Group
  7. Choose the Next.,
  8. System Displays an error message Company tax arrangement for federal tax authority is missing or incomplete. For reporting purposes,the employer must have a valid company tax arrangement.

Cause

The error message referring to Company tax arrangement for federal tax authority is missing or incomplete. For reporting purposes, the employer must have a valid company tax arrangement is appearing because the company into which the employee is hired doesn't have a tax arrangement with the Federal Tax Authority. During payroll hire this is checked.

Resolution

  1. Go to Personnel Administration work center.  
  2. Choose the Tax Authorities subview under the view Authorities.
  3. In the Find field, search for federal.
  4. Choose the USA Federal Tax authority record that comes up.
  5. Choose Tax Authority under Edit button.
  6. The Tax Authority screen appear, go to tab Company Tax Arrangements.
  7. Here an entry for the required company has to be maintained.

Keywords

KBA , SRD-HR-PAD , Personnel Administration , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions