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2853502 - Tax Payment is Inconsistent

Symptom

You cannot post tax payment with payment allocation ABC (ABC is the payment allocation ID) due to the following error messages:

"Tax Payment is inconsistent.

Release of tax payment failed.

Profit center DEF (DEF is the profit center ID) determined for Bank Statement XXX (XXX is the bank statement ID) is not valid on DD.MM.YYYY.

Check the validity of profit center DEF in Organizational Management and your default profit centers in configuration. "

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Payment Management work center.
  2. Go to the Payment Allocation view.
  3. Search for Payment Allocation ABC and select it.
  4. Click the Payment Allocation ID ABC to open the same and then View All.
  5. Click Post.

The error messages are:

"Tax Payment is inconsistent.

Release of tax payment failed.

Profit center DEF (DEF is the profit center ID) determined for Bank Statement XXX (XXX is the bank statement ID) is not valid on DD.MM.YYYY.

Check the validity of profit center DEF in Organizational Management and your default profit centers in configuration. "

The allocated Payment Amount is NNN.NN Currency (NNN.NN is the amount).

  1. Go to the Tax Management work center.
  2. Go to the Tax Payments view.
  3. Search and select Tax Payment HIJ (HIJ is the tax payment ID) with Payment amount NNN.NN Currency.

The status is Release Discarded.

  1. Click View.

The related Tax Returns ID is KLM (KLM is tax return ID).

  1. Click the ID to open the VAT Return ID KLM.
  2. Click View All.
  3. Check the From and To dates. 
  1. Go to the Organizational Management work center.
  2. Go to the Organizational Structures view.
  3. Set the Date for today.
  4. Search for Org Unit DEF.

The Unit cannot be found.

  1. Set the Date as a date on or between the From and TO date of the VAT Return ID KLM.
  2. Search for Org Unit DEF.
  3. Click Locate.
  4. Check Validity of the Org Unit.

The validity of the Org Unit ended before the date DD.MM.YYYY.

Cause

The Org Unit is not active anymore.

You have to make sure that all payments/ activities are settled for an Org Unit before deactivating it.

Resolution

To make the payment, you need to extend the validity of the Org Unit so that the posting can go through.

See Also

1849029- How to Extend the Validity of an Org Unit to a Past date?

Keywords

Tax Payment; inconsistent; Organisationseinheit; Umsatzsteuervoranmeldung; Steuerzahlung , KBA , SRD-FIN-MOP , Payment Management , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions