Impact of change in EU code for tax codes - VAT 2010

[Former Member]

Hi,

We had in our system, a number of tax codes created to conform with the VAT 2010 directives (for services). It seems they had been incorrectly set up with EU code "2", at the time of creation. There are postings happening to these tax codes from the required date. However, now we realize that this tax code is not picked in the EC Sales List report, as the EU codes are set as "2", even though we check the "select service" check box in the EC Sales List report.

Going through some of the SAP OSS notes, it appeared to me that the EU code for these should have been "4", to get picked in the report.

My concern is that if we change the EU code from "2" to "4" in the existing tax code set up would it impact the document posted in the past and also after the change will the previous documents posted with these tax codes be reported in the EC Sales List.

Kindly advise on the same.

Regards,

Abhishek

[Former Member]

Hi Abhishek

I know you looked at this issue over one year ago,  can you tell me if you made the change and if so did you have any further issues with this change apart from the customer master check against the VAT code?

thanks

[ravichandran_iyer]

As I read the documentation for that field, it appears that the field is only used to check for VAT number presence in the Customer master during entry and indicate that this tax code should be picked up in the EC Sales list.

Going by that logic, there should be no consequences on your past transactions if you change the EU code. Also, you should be able to get the past transactions too in your EC Sales list.

However, I would suggest you to try this in your test server before doing anything in production.

Ravi.