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3227656 - Error Tax Exemption Certificate is not Usable when try to Release the Customer Invoice

Symptom

When you try to release the Invoice , you will get the error "Tax Exemption Certificate is not Usable" and "Save Failed"

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign.

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Customer Invoicing work center.
  2. Go to Invoice Documents View.
  3. Search for the Customer Invoice ABC (ABC is the ID Customer Invoice which you have created and used the Tax Exemption Certificate).
  4. Edit the Customer Invoice ABC.
  5. You can see that the Free Text line item Total is 50k EUR.
  6. When you try to release the Invoice, you will get the error "Tax Exemption Certificate is not Usable" and "Save Failed".
  7. As a result the Invoice is not released.

Cause

You are using free text line item in the Customer invoice.

We do not support Tax exemption certificates for free text line items.

Resolution

This is expected system behavior.

Keywords

Certificate is not Usable; Tax Exemption; Certificate; , KBA , SRD-CRM-INV , Customer Invoicing , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions