2369562 - A Numeric Entry is Expected in Field Tax Number - Error When Maintaining Business Partner CIF Number - SAP Business ByDesign

• You are entering the Spanish CIF number for a business partner, starting with A or B followed by 8 digits, for example: A12345678.
• An error message appears: "A numeric entry is expected in field Tax number". 
• The CIF number, however, must start with either an A or B: if you enter a number instead of the letter, for example: 012345678 another error message appears: "In field Tax number, a letter is expected in position 1 or 9". 

SAP Business ByDesign

1. In the Supplier Base work center, navigate to the Suppliers view.
2. Find the respective supplier and press Edit - Financial Data.
3. Navigate to the Tax Data sub-tab.
4. In the Country field enter ES-Spain.
5. In the Tax Number Type field select CIF Number.
6. In the Tax Number field enter the CIF number, for example: A12345678.
7. An error message appears: A numeric entry is expected in field Tax number.

The tax number check rules have been changed for Spain to only accept numerical values in the Countries/Regions Fine Tune task.

To be able to accept alphanumeric values for tax numbers you need to change a rule accepting such values:

1. In the Business Configuration work center, navigate to the Implementation Projects view to open the Activity List.
2. Go to the Fine-Tune phase and find and open the Countries/Regions activity (if your system is live open this activity from the Overview view, via Change Immediately).
3. Click Edit Countries/Regions.
4. In the Country/Region table select ES-Spain.
5. Navigate to the Tax Attributes tab.
6. Here, in field V A T Registration Number Check Rule as well as Tax Number One Check Rule change the rule back to rule "3 - Length to be kept to exactly, without gaps" (the standard setting).
7. After this you will be able to save alphanumeric tax numbers for Spanish Business partners.

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