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3272687 - "123 is not a valid value for this field. Enter a valid value." when creating new supplier invoice

Symptom

You receive error "123 is not a valid value for this field. Enter a valid value." when creating new supplier invoice. (123 represents the tax code you select)

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Supplier Invoicing work center.
  2. Go to New Invoice Without Purchase Order or Create New Invoice Template under Common Tasks view.
  3. Fill in supplier, buying company information and navigate to Items tab.
  4. Select Tax Code as 123.
  5. You receive error: 123 is not a valid value for this field. Enter a valid value.

Cause

You have created 2 tax codes with exactly the same tax event, tax type, tax rate type, and deductibility information in the system, and you also create 2 tax rates in the system, one of them is valid from a future date. You are expecting system picks different tax rate when selecting different tax code.

Resolution

There is no necessary to create 2 same tax code in the system. You can use the same tax code and you can update the tax rate by changing tax date field under Items tab, Taxes sub-tab, only if you have maintained corresponding tax rates for different valid dates via Business Configuration Activity: Tax on Goods and Services - Tax Rate Schedules.

You can obsolete tax code 123 as it is a duplicate one.

Keywords

"123 is not a valid value for this field. Enter a valid value", Tax code, Supplier invoice, Supplier invoice template , KBA , SRD-SRM-PRO , Purchase Requests and Orders , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions