3523199 - Brexit configuration lead to AR197 - VAT Registration number is Invalid - error

Since UK is a third country, taxable cross-border transactions between EU and GB (England, Scotland and Wales) are classified as imports and exports and thus treated as transactions between EU and any other non-EU third country. However, there is a dual position of NI (Northern Ireland) due to the aim of avoiding a physical border on the island of Ireland.

Typical misconceptions are:

• To complete NIP ( Northern Ireland Protocol) the new customer or vendor had been created with country code XI and maintained the XI VAT registration number in STCEG
• XI VAT registration number had been maintained other than STCD6 field 

• SAP S/4HANA
• SAP ERP 6.0

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