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2530279 - Unable to Approve Tax Payment Due to the Error : Bank details of payer/payee (Tax Authority) Do Not Exist

Symptom

Approval of the tax payment could not be completed due to the error: "Bank details of payer/payee (Tax Authority) do not exist." 
'Release of tax payment X failed.'

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Application and User Management Work Centre.
  2. Navigate to the Approvals view and show Open Tasks.
  3. Locate the tax payment which with the subject: Tax Payment X -  YYY LC (X-YYY stands for the tax payment ID, LC stands for Local Currency).
  4. Select the line and press Approve.

Error:

'Bank details of payer/payee (Tax Authority) do not exist.'
'Release of tax payment X failed.'

Cause

The validity of the bank account maintained for the tax authority starts on a later date than the tax payment's  date that you are trying to approve. As a result, the system was unable to locate valid bank details for the date on which the payment is being attempted. .

Resolution

  1. Go to the Tax Management Work Centre.
  2. Access the Company Tax Arrangements view and find the respective Tax Authority.
  3. Navigate to the Financial Data tab, and here to the Bank Data sub-tab.

The Valid From date of this bank account maintained is on later date than the tax payment's  payment date.

Change the validity of this bank account to a before date which is equal to the tax payment date or before.

Keywords

Tax Payment Bank Details Do Not Existbankverbindung des zahlenden,zahlungsempfängers , KBA , SRD-FIN-TAX , Tax Management , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions