SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3429552 - 051 Item cannot be paid: Error in withholding tax calculation

Symptom

In Manage Automatic Payments App payment/proposal returns to error and in Exception: "051(Item cannot be paid: Error in withholding tax calculation)" message can be found.

The error is not coming during manual payment in App Post Outgoing Payments.

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Enter App Manage Automatic Payments.
  2. Create and schedule payment proposal or run.
  3. It returns to error and in Exception the error is: 051 (Item cannot be paid: Error in withholding tax calculation).

Cause

Withholding tax data is calculated incorrectly for vendor line items. There is a mismatch between vendor withholding tax data in BP master (under Company Code Data) and calculated withholding tax in the documents. Consequently, when you attempt to make a payment, an inconsistency error is triggered.

Resolution

Correct the related documents for consistent posting so that when running Manage Automatic Payments App again, withholding tax could be calculated based on the system configuration.

See Also

FZ376, automatic, payment, withholding tax, type, code, BP master, supplier, vendor, business partner, F0770, F0 770

Keywords

xxx , KBA , FI-FIO-AP-PAY-2CL , Payment Apps (Public Cloud) , Problem

Product

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