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3574283 - Incorrect Tax Code Determination in Purchase Order for Special Economic Zones (SEZ)

Symptom

You notice that on your Purchase Orders the expected Tax Rate for Special Economic Zones (SEZ) is not applied.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Purchase Request and Orders Work Center.
  2. Go to Purchase Orders View.
  3. Select all Purchase order and search for relevant ID
  4. Open the PO and click view all.
  5. Navigate to the Item tab and then the Taxes subtab.

You can see that the applied Tax Code is not the one you expect. 

Cause

This is the expected system behaviour as Automatic Tax Determination is not available for Special Economic Zones.

Resolution

If you would like to enhance the functionality, you can post the idea in influence forum: https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/886 

As a workaround, it is necessary to manually maintain the expected Tax Code on your Purchase Order:

  1. Go to the Purchase Request and Orders Work Center.
  2. Go to the Purchase Orders View.
  3. Select all Purchase order and search for relevant ID.
  4. Click on Edit, then View All.
  5. Navigate to the Item tab and then the Taxes subtab.
  6. In the Tax Code drop down menu, select the relevant Tax Code for your transaction and save.

Keywords

Tax Code; Purchase Order; Special Economic Zones; SEZ; Wrong tax code;    , KBA , AP-TTE-GLO , Cross-Country Extensions , SRD-SRM-PRO , Purchase Requests and Orders , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions