2766220 - Low-Value Asset Not Deactivated After Customer Invoice Posting For Tax based Valuation View

• You create a Customer Invoice over the full Net Amount of Fixed Asset XYZ (XYZ represents the Fixed Asset ID). 
• You expect Fixed Asset XYZ to be fully retired after the sale. 
• Instead, the Fixed Asset is still in status Capitalized. 
• For the German Tax Set of Books the asset is marked as Low-Value Asset. You notice a Retirement Date, but the Deactivation Date is missing.
• For the respective Valuation view, DE0010, the Retirement Posting is posted with a zero amount.
• Depreciation Amounts are still calculated.

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1. In the Fixed Assets work center go to the Fixed Assets view.
2. Show all Fixed Assets and find Fixed Asset XYZ. 
3. Its status is Capitalized. 
4. Press Edit-Master Data and select the Life Cycle Data sub-tab. 
5. For the German Tax Set of Books, the Asset is marked as Low-Value Asset, A Last Retirement Date is maintained but the Deactivation Date is not set and not editable. 
6. Switch to the Master Data - Asset Valuation tab. 
7. Select the Tax Valuation valuation view. The Depreciation method maintained is L200 - Str.-line 20% LowValueAsset German Tax. 
8. Switch to the Values tab. 
9. Select the Tax Valuation Valuation view and then navigate to the Depreciation Overview sub-tab: Depreciation amounts are calculated for the (remaining) useful life of the Fixed Asset. 
10. Navigate to the Journal tab: The Retirement posting, generated with the Customer Invoice posting, is posted with a 0,00 EUR amount.  

For the tax-based Valuation View DE0010 the Default Depreciation method for Low-Value assets is set to Depreciation method L200 - Str.-line 20% LowValueAsset German Tax by default. According to the German legal Tax requirements a straight-line depreciation of five years applies.

From the legal perspective, an LVA maintained with the L200 depreciation method cannot be retired or deactivated during the five-year depreciation period. Therefore, Depreciation amounts are still calculated, the retirement generated with the Customer Invoice is posted with a 0,00 EUR amount and the Deactivation date of Fixed Asset XYZ is not set.

The system works as designed.

Low-Value Assets for Germany

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