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3413130 - Error In Concur Expense Report: 'Business Transaction Expense Report XYZ : Tax Code not filled in tax item'.

Symptom

You are trying to post a Concur expense report but your are facing the following error messages: 

'Business Transaction Expense Report XYZ : Tax Code not filled in tax item'

'Business Transaction Expense Report XYZ: Simplified Tax without tax group'

(XYZ represents the Report Key ID)

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to General Ledger work center.
  2. Go to Concur view > Expense Reports subview. 
  3. Select "All Expense Reports".
  4. Search for Report Key ID: XYZ. 
  5. Here we can see two error messages: 

'Business Transaction Expense Report XYZ : Tax Code not filled in tax item'

'Business Transaction Expense Report XYZ : Simplified Tax without tax group'

Cause

One possible reason is because the tax code is not filled. You can check the same following the steps below: 

  1. Go to General Ledger work center.
  2. Go to Concur view > Expense Reports subview. 
  3. Select "All Expense Reports".
  4. Search for Report Key ID: XYZ. 
  5. Click in the "Download the Original JSON" button.
  6. Open the downloaded HTML file, and you could see that the tax code is not filled as below.

"taxCode":null,

Resolution

You need to mark the Expense Report as "Failed" and then post again with the tax code filled. 

Keywords

tax code, Expense Report, Concur, tax item, not filled, Business Transaction. , KBA , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions