SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3460022 - "Items with withholding tax code for customer/vendor subject to withholding tax" error in Automatic Clearing - S/4HANA Cloud

Symptom

Clear Open Items - Automatic Clearing App is not selecting and clearing customer/vendor open items.

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Enter App Clear Open Items - Automatic Clearing
  2. Enter mandatory Parameters (Company Code, FY, Customer/Vendor Account).
  3. Run the App in Test mode firstly.
  4. In Additional Log error is displayed: "Items with withholding tax code for customer/vendor subject to withholding tax".

Cause

Customer or vendor is subject to withholding tax. It can be checked in BP master in App Manage Business Partner Master Data. Automatic Clearing App is not clearing the following items:

  • Noted items

  • Statistical postings and special G/L transactions of the type bill of exchange

  • Items with withholding tax postings

  • Down payments, unless down payment clearing for the same amount has been posted

Resolution

Customer/supplier open items subject to withholding tax cannot be cleared automatically. Use other Apps like Clear Outgoing Payments or Clear Incoming Payments.

See Also

Automatic Clearing

3147360 - Automatic and GR/IR Clearing Process in S/4HANA Cloud

Keywords

automatic, clearing, withholding tax, F.13 , KBA , FI-GL-GL-A-2CL , Posting/Clearing (Public Cloud) , Problem

Product

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