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2960765 - How to Remove Tax code in Purchase Order or Supplier Invoice

Symptom

System automatically determines tax code or withholding tax code for purchase order / supplier invoice items.

However you want to remove it.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

Take purchase order as an example.

  1. Go to Purchase Requests and Orders work center.
  2. Go to Purchase Orders view.
  3. Open purchase order ABC (ABC refers to purchase order ID).
  4. Go to Items tab.
  5. Select an item, go to Taxes subtab, standard tax code, and in some cases both standard tax code and withholding tax, are automatically determined by system.
  6. Manually remove the codes.
  7. The change cannot be saved and system determines tax again.

Cause

In general tax code and withholding tax code tax code are determined automatically based on the tax details maintained in product master data or supplier master data.

User cannot make the tax codes as empty.

Resolution

For standard tax, it cannot be empty. User can select a tax code that has zero tax rate when tax is not charged.

For withholding tax, if the supplier / product is irrelevant for withholding tax, user can remove the withholding tax details in the supplier master data and  product master data tax details.

Keywords

empty tax code, remove tax code, zero tax rate, remove withholding tax code , KBA , SRD-SRM-SI , Supplier Invoicing , AP-POP-PO , Purchase Order , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions