FI tax code
Tax code does not exist or is not valid
Vendor/customer invoice or journal posting fails because the tax code is unknown or not valid for the country/company-code context.
Quick answer
- Most likely cause
- The tax code was not created for the country procedure in the target system.
- Check first
- Tax code entered in the document or payload.
- First resolution step
- Confirm the intended tax treatment with Finance/Tax.
Likely root causes
- The tax code was not created for the country procedure in the target system.
- The interface sends a source-system tax code without mapping it to SAP.
- The company code/country used by the posting is different from the one for which the tax code exists.
What to inspect
- Tax code entered in the document or payload.
- FTXP/customizing for the relevant country tax procedure.
- Company-code country and tax procedure.
- Middleware/interface tax-code mapping.
Resolution path
- Confirm the intended tax treatment with Finance/Tax.
- Correct the inbound tax-code mapping or use the valid SAP tax code.
- Create/change a tax code only through approved tax configuration.
- Recalculate and retest tax before reposting.
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