VAT Austria: Tax Rate Reduction / SAP Business ByDesign

[petermeid]

Dear Community,

as you may know the Austrian state reduced the tax rates for special business cases to 5% as per 01.07.2020. Finally last weekend, SAP provided a new Tax Rate Type: 5 - Exceptional Reduced. They also maintained the tax rate for this Tax Rate Type by 5% in the activity "Tax on Goods and Services".

Does anybody know if they provided some information about this additional Tax Rate Type and what more needs to be done by the users? I added a new tax code (Z5) into our system and linked it to the new tax rate type. But what else needs to be done to make the system work properly?

I already found 2 further issues:

• Tax Reporting Austria: In the activity "Tax Returns for Goods and Services - Austria" the entries to report the taxes appropriately are not maintained. AND it is not possible for users to maintain it themselves as the activity is read-only. (also see KBA 1880797). How can a user add the relevant entries?

• Expense Reporting: If I add an expense (e.g. hotel) to an epense report the Tax Code Z5 linked to the new Tax Rate Type is not available. Obviously the new Tax Rate Type has not been included into the relevant Tax Code Groups. (See Activity "Expense Reporting - Austria" - "Edit expense types"). And there is now way to add it ourselves (KBA 2372433).

Can anybody help on this? Tthanks a lot!

Best Regards

Peter

[petermeid]

Dear SAP,

I posted my question 6 days ago and still no answer?

July is going to end soon and on our customers' desks there are bunches of expense reports which cannot be processed. When will SAP provide a solution, especially for the expense reports ... but also for tax filing?

Please provide a short statement so that our customers can make a plan for month end closing.

Thanks a lot!

Best Regards

Peter

[former_member362796]

Hello Peter,

sorry for the late response.
Please see an overview of the changes below.

TAXES
Work center “Business Configuration”, “Fine-Tune” tab.
Activity “Tax on Goods and Services”

Section “Define Tax Codes”.
“AT” as country in the “Filter” field.
Two new tax codes with validity from 01.07.2020 – 31.12.2020 are delivered:
32 Domestic purchase - exceptional reduced rate, fully deductible
33 Domestic purchase - exceptional reduced rate, non-deductible

Section „Define Tax Rate Schedules”
To cover the new 5% rate a new tax rate type = “5 - Exceptional Reduced” was delivered.

In case you need a tax code for sales, please enter a customer specific tax code in the system in the following way: Valid from date = 01.07.2020, Valid to date = 31.12.2020, Tax event = “310 - Domestic Sale”. In the bottom part of the screen, in the “Details” section, click on “Add Row” and enter the following parameters: Tax Type = 1 - Value Added Tax, Tax rate type = “5 - Exceptional Reduced”
In case you need a tax code for intracommunity acquisitions, please enter a customer specific tax code in the system in the following way: Valid from date = 01.07.2020, Valid to date = 31.12.2020, Tax event = “100 - Intra-community acquisition of goods”. In the bottom part of the screen, in the “Details” section, click on “Add Row” and enter the following parameters: Tax Type = 1 - Value Added Tax, Tax rate type = “5 - Exceptional Reduced”.

EXPENSE AND REIMBURSEMENT MANAGEMENT
Work center “Business Configuration”. “Fine-Tune”tab.
Activity “Expense Reporting – Austria”.
Section “Edit expense types”.
Either change existing expense types (for example HOTEL) or create a new one.
In the bottom part of the screen, in the “Details” + “Definition” section, choose tax type group – “Domestic purchase - exceptional reduced rate, fully deductible” or “Domestic purchase - exceptional reduced rate, non-deductible”.

TAX RETURNS FOR GOODS AND SERVICES
Activity “Tax Returns for Goods and Services – Austria”
Section “Product Tax return Austria”
Tax return type: Periodic VAT return

Tax event section
Tax event 10 “Domestic purchase” -> tax rate type 5 -> assigned to box 060

Tax event “100 – Intra-community acquisition of goods” – tax rate type 5 assigned to:
* Output Tax: Tax box 070
* Output tax: Tax base amount – Box 010 & Tax amount – Box 010
* Input tax: Tax amount -> Box 065
Tax event “310 – Domestic Sales” – tax rate type 5 assigned to:
* Box 000
* Box 009 Base amount
* Box 009 Tax amount

Also changes were made in November for VAT Return Type: 4 - Calculation Basis Chamber Contribution 1

Best Regards

Anette