Symptom
You are not able to clear a customer invoice with down payment because of the error message: 'Tax reporting unit of down payment differs from those of other items'.
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to the Receivables work center.
- Go to the Customer Accounts view.
- Choose any customer and click View.
- In the Trade Receivables tab, show Open Items.
- You can see a customer invoice and a down payment with the same account.
- Select these two items and choose Clear Manually.
- In the new manual clearing screen, the customer invoice is automatically unchecked, and the system gives the error message:
'Tax reporting unit of down payment differs from those of other items.'
Cause
You cannot clear the documents against each other when the tax reporting units are different from each document.
Resolution
System will determine tax reporting unit automatically based on whether the items are goods or services. In order to overcome this issue you can follow either of these options:
- Cancel and create new invoice which will match and equals the tax reporting unit of down payment.
or.
- Go to the Customer Invoicing/Supplier Invoicing work center.
- Show All Documents.
- Find Document ID XXX (where XXX stands for the deviating payment).
- Click Cancel.
The system creates a cancellation document and changes the status of the original invoice document to canceled.
- Go to the Customer Invoicing/Supplier Invoicing work center.
- Select New Manual Invoice / New Invoice Without Purchase Order under common tasks.
- Fill the required before posting.
Sales Process
- For goods, the system determines the TRU from the Ship-from location.
- For services, the system determines the TRU from the Bill-from party/ Invoicing Unit.
- For projects and third party shipments, TRU is determined from Bill-from party /Invoicing unit.
Purchase Process
- For goods, the system determines the TRU from the Ship-to location.
- For services, the system determines the TRU from the Bill-to party.
Now you can select the correct Ship from/to, Invoicing unit etc., as required to match the same party that your down payment has and clear the invoice with down payment.
If the TRU in the invoice is correct you can follow the below option to correct the TRU in down payment:
1. Cancel the down payment and create new down payment by cautiously selecting the party which will match TRU of your invoice
See Also
Refer to the help document Multiple Tax Registration – India for the details on how tax reporting unit is determined for goods and services.
Keywords
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