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3666875 - 'Historical factor for calculating taxes must be filled for the line-item' error during invoice posting SAP S/4 HANA Public Cloud Edition

Symptom

When posting AP/AR invoices with tax code in the supplier/customer item without any tax-relevant items, error message 'Historical factor for calculating taxes must be filled for the line-item' error appears. This message states that the historical factor for calculating taxes must be filled for this line item.

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Edition

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Release or post supplier/customer invoices in the system. 
  2. Observe, that error message 'Historical factor for calculating taxes must be filled for the line-item' occurs.

Cause

Registration for Indirect Taxation Abroad (RITA) is active in your system. The error is a restriction in case of invoice transactions.

Resolution

Delete the tax code from the supplier/customer item. This item is not tax-relevant, and deleting the tax code prevents error from being triggered. 

See Also

KBA 2907372 UPDATE: Restriction Note for Registration for Indirect Taxation Abroad in SAP S/4HANA CE2005 and further Releases

Keywords

historical factor, calculating taxes, line-item error, message FOT_TXA077, sap s/4hana cloud public edition, registration for indirect taxation abroad, currency conversion factor, tax code, AP/AR invoices, RITA , KBA , FI-GL-GL-F-2CL , Value Added Tax (VAT) (Public Cloud) , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions