Symptom
When maintaining a General Tax Number for the Country Austria you get the error message 'Tax registration number not valid'. This is only valid for the Country AT - Austria.
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to the Tax Management Work Center.
- Switch to the Company Tax Arrangements View.
- Highlight the Company ID XXX (where XXX represents the Company ID in question) for the country of the Tax Authority Austria.
- Press Edit.
- Switch to the tab Company Tax Arrangements.
- Change to the tab Tax Numbers.
- Press Add Row.
- Select 2 - General Tax Number.
- Enter Data in any format, for example: tax authority Innsbruck (81) and tax number (242/6575), so for example: 812426575 or AT812426575.
- You get an error message: 'Tax registration number not valid'.
Cause
You need to maintain only the seven digits of the Tax Number, not the 2 digits of the Tax Authority. The Tax Authority will then be derived automatically.
Resolution
- Go to the Tax Management Work Center.
- Switch to the Company Tax Arrangements View.
- Highlight Company ID XXX country of the Tax Authority Austria.
- Press Edit.
- Switch to the tab Company Tax Arrangements.
- Choose the tab Tax Numbers.
- Press Add Row.
- Select 2 - General Tax Number.
- Enter a seven digit Tax Number, for example 2426575 (see example above).
- You can see that in Header Finanzamt Innsbruck is displayed automatically.
See Also
Keywords
Tax registration number not valid; general tax number Austria; company tax arrangements , KBA , tax registration number not valid , general tax number austria , SRD-FIN-TAX , Tax Management , Known Error
Product
SAP Business ByDesign all versions