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3099635 - Error FF731 when directly posting to a tax account

Symptom

Error message FF731 "Tax code & may only contain one assignment line" is raised when user directly post to a tax account using app Post General Journal Entries.

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Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Post a journal entry in which user post directly to a tax account;
  2. Error message FF731 is raised on simulating or posting.

Cause

One of reasons for this issue is that tax code definition is incorrect for direct tax account posting.
Like below as an example of incorrect definition, tax code contains more than one activated tax rate.
In SSCUI 101016 - Define Tax Codes for Sales and Purchases
101016 EXAMPLE.png

Resolution

For a direct posting to a tax account, it is only allowed to use a tax code with only one activated tax rate.
Otherwise error message FF731 will be raised.

See Also

870090 - FF732, FF731 at direct tax account postings
2891150 - Error FF731 although tax code definition is correct

Keywords

FF731, direct tax, contain, one assignment line, one condition type, tax rate, FTXP, OBYZ, procedure, FF 731, directly. , KBA , FI-GL-GL-F , Value Added Tax (VAT) , FI-GL-GL-F-2CL , Value Added Tax (VAT) (Public Cloud) , How To

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions ; SAP S/4HANA Cloud all versions