Create a New Withholding Tax Report using Advanced Compliance Reporting

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This blog post describes how to create a new withholding tax report on the SAP S/4HANA Cloud using Advanced Compliance Reporting.
For example, you wish to create a withholding tax (WHT) report for a country, for which it is not available as a part of the standard delivery.

Limitations

1. The new report definition must use existing data sources such as BRF+ functions, data base tables and CDS views.


2. Schema can be created using the XSD files provided by the authorities, a CDS view or a custom business object which meets the requirement. However, you can only use the fields available in the data source (point 1) for mapping.

Prerequisites

You have administrative access to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, and implementation experience on the system. You are also familiar with the implementation of Advanced Compliance Reporting on SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Authorizations

Business Role	Business Role ID
Administrator                             .	SAP _ BR _ ADMINISTRATOR
Configuration Expert - Business Process Configuration	SAP_BR_BPC_EXPERT                                   .

Implementation

Implementation of the new report is across the following apps and configuration steps (SSCUI), and these are available on the SAP FIORI dashboard.

• Define Compliance Reports app (Define compliance reports)


• Set up Compliance Reports (Setting up your compliance reports)


• Run Compliance Reports app (Run compliance Reports)

In the Define Compliance Reports app, parameters are added to the report definition. The report definition is then assigned to a reporting activity, which is in turn assigned to a report category. The parameters help the system identify the data for the output of a specific report. You enter the values of the parameters to enable the system to create a complete and correct output document.

Key implementation Considerations

Define Compliance Report app

Implementation	Implementation Considerations
Report Definition       .	Create a Report Definition. While creating the report, note that it is not necessary to input information about Correspondence Definition and Event Handler. They are optional for the setup of the WHT report. Include Parameters in addition to those that are a part of the new report definition. Specify Parameter behavior, such as whether its input should be multiple selection, optional, hidden or read only. Define Queries based on the existing CDS views database tables. There are three queries to be created, one to retrieve report header data, another to retrieve withholding items data and the third to query reporting logs. To create the WHT file, you upload a file format as specified by the authorities (such as XML and JSON). This would create a schema. With the schema, you create a document, which is then to be mapped to fields in an existing CDS.
Report Category	Create a Report Category. Assign existing Organizational units such as company code, business area, business place, section code and tax jurisdiction. Assign Reporting Definition to the reporting activity

Configure Compliance

Implementation	Implementation Considerations
Define Compliance Reporting Entities	Select the following under Manage Your Solution app: Finance as the Application Area Localization as the Sub Application Area Cross-country as Configuration Select Configurations from the list of configuration steps. Create a New Entity and then link the report category to the new entity.

Run Compliance app

Implementation of the Run Compliance app is as per standard guidelines.

To know more about the various features available in the Run Advanced Compliance Reports app, see a series of blog under Run Compliance Reports.