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2646729 - 'Tax payment must be outgoing' Error In New Tax Payment

Symptom

While creating a New Tax Payment error 'Tax payment must be outgoing' appears.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Liquidity Management work center.
  2. Go to the Common Tasks view.
  3. Click New Tax Payment sub view.
  4. Choose Tax Payment as Tax Payment Type.
  5. Select any Tax Return Arrangement ID.
  6. Fill in any other mandatory data if required.
  7. Click Check button.
  8. Error 'Tax payment must be outgoing' appears.

Cause

Ideally the Tax Payable amount should be in negative. If the Tax Payable amount is positive then this error appears. Also the Tax Receivable should be positive.

Resolution

Make sure that the Tax Payable amount is in negative and the Tax Receivable amount is in positive.

  1. Go to the Liquidity Management work center.
  2. Go to the Common Tasks view.
  3. Click New Tax Payment sub view.
  4. Choose Tax Payment as Tax Payment Type.
  5. Select any Tax Return Arrangement ID.
  6. Click View All.
  7. Go to the Tax return tab.
  8. Make sure that the Tax Payable should be Payable and the amount to be in negative.

See Also

KBA 2737819 - How to Create a Positive Tax Payment

Keywords

Tax Payment Must be Outgoing, Tax Payment Error , KBA , SRD-FIN-GLO-TAX , GLO - Tax Declaration , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions