Symptom
Error while creating a New Tax Payment with positive amount: 'Tax payment must be outgoing'.
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to the Liquidity Management work center.
- Go to the Common Tasks view.
- Click New Tax Payment sub view.
- Choose Tax Payment as Tax Payment Type.
- Select any Tax Return Arrangement ID.
- Fill in any other mandatory data if required.
- Click Check button.
Error 'Tax payment must be outgoing' appears.
Cause
The steps to create a tax payment as outlined in the Reproducing the Issue section of this KBA will only work for negative tax amount, for positive tax amount the steps described in the next KBA section Resolution should be followed.
Resolution
- Go to the Liquidity Management work center
- Click New Incoming Check under Common Task.
- In Payer field, select the ID of the relevant Tax Authority.
- Click Post.
Consequence: it will automatically create a tax payment because a Payer which is a Tax Authority has been selected.
- Go to the Tax Management Work Center.
- Click Tax Payments view.
Result: the incoming check created is found, can now be matched against a positive value return and can be successfully posted.
See Also
KBA 2646729 - 'Tax payment must be outgoing' Error In New Tax Payment
Keywords
Positive Tax, Montant positif, Tax Payment, , KBA , SRD-FIN-TAX , Tax Management , How To
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