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3413130 - Error In Concur Expense Report: 'Business Transaction Expense Report XYZ : Tax Code not filled in Tax Item' or 'Business Transaction Expense Report XYZ: Simplified Tax Without Tax Group' .

Symptom

While trying to post a Concur expense report but 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 it will shows below 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. Check the same by following the below steps: 

  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 filled as below.

"taxCode":null,

Resolution

Mark the Expense Report as "Failed" and then post again with the correct 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