Proceed to the resolution section of this FAQ -Frequently Asked Questions- article for the answers of the following:
- Tax number categories that SAP delivers
- Customer needs to use a tax category for a country that is not included in note 775919
- Custom Tax number categories changed/deleted after system upgrade
- Mapping between Business Partner tax categories and ECC vendor/customer tax numbers
- Mapping between Table DFKKBPTAXNUM VAT number and table KNAS/LFAS-STCEG, KNA1/LFA1-STCEG
- Error AR103: "<XXX> is longer than <XXX> characters"
- How to control tax duplicate check
1.Tax number categories that SAP delivers
Detailed information could be found in Note:775919 - Missing tax number categories of business partner
2.Customer needs to use a tax category for a country that is not included in note 775919
Detailed information could be found in KBA: 2021660 - Missing tax number categories in note 775919
Note : 201073 - Adding more tax number types to the business partner
Note: Consider that this is a modification, that is, if SAP delivers a tax number type with the same name, the system in this case overwrites your modified tax number types according to the above-listed rules.
3.Custom Tax number categories changed/deleted after system upgrade
Detailed information could be found in KBA: 2828534 - Tax number categories changed/deleted after upgrade.
4.Mapping between Business Partner tax categories and ECC vendor/customer tax numbers
The mapping between business partner tax categories and ECC vendor/customer tax numbers is as follows:
Tax category ending in 0 --- Goes to field tax “VAT Reg. No” (STCEG)
Tax category ending in 1 --- Goes to field “Tax Number 1” (STCD1)
Tax category ending in 2 --- Goes to field “Tax Number 2” (STCD2)
Tax category ending in 3 --- Goes to field “Tax Number 3” (STCD3)
Tax category ending in 4 --- Goes to field “Tax Number 4” (STCD4)
Tax category ending in 5 --- Goes to field “Tax Number 5” (STCD5)
The exceptions to the previous mapping rules are:
Country Germany(DE), Country China(CN).
Other special cases :
Argentina, Switzerland
Detailed information could be found in KBA: 2865204 - Mapping Business Partner Tax Number Categories to customer/vendor Tax Number fields
5.Mapping between Table DFKKBPTAXNUM VAT number and table KNAS/LFAS-STCEG, KNA1/LFA1-STCEG
If Address and Tax Country are the same then field KNA1-STCEG is used
If Address and Tax Country are different then field KNAS-STCEG is used
Detailed information could be found in KBA: 2668405 - Table DFKKBPTAXNUM shows 2 VAT entries while table KNAS-STCEG only shows 1 VAT entry
6.Error AR103: "<XXX> is longer than <XXX> characters"
To solve this error, you can refer to KBA: 2477732 - Error AR103 happens when you add BP tax numbers
To change the error AR103 to warning message or info message, you can refer to Note: 958424 - BP:Error message for tax code 2 customized
7.How to control tax duplicate check
Please use transaction BUPA_TAXNUMTYPE which gives the tax categories for the countries.
If duplicate check is off then no duplicate check will be done for the vat number.
If you put the duplicate check on then you will you will get BUPA_TAX 400 which is a message which checks for duplicate tax entries.
