F.13 does not clear VAT GL

[beata58]

Hi,

I want to clear VAT GL from previous year (there is plenty of postings). In F.13 nothing has been cleared. As criteria: I marked Select G/L accounts and completed it, as output selected "document that can be cleared"

In OB74 there is rule of clearing base on Assignment.

Can you help me what else can be wrong?

Do you think that running S_ALR_87012357 can support performing clearing?

Thank you.

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[sanilbhandari]

Hi beata58-

The VAT Account are of different types and based on how the postings can happen to the VAT Account you should set up the clearing parameters. The first VAT Accountt is:

Input VAT Account (Say 12345):

Here the postings are put in as:

Expense A/c Dr $100

Input VAT Account (12345) Dr $10

To Vendor A/cc Cr $110

Output VAT Liability Account (Say 67890)

Here the postings are put in as:

Customer A/c Dr $220

To Revenue A/c Cr $ 200

To Output VAT Liability (67890) Cr $ 20

Now at month end you will offset Input VAT Account (12345) and Output VAT Liability Account (67890)

Output VAT Liability (67890) Dr $ 20

To Input VAT Account (123450) Cr $ 10

To VAT Payable (ABCDE) Cr $ 10

At month end you would have $10 to be paid to the tax authority.

Now if you are talking of Input VAT Account (12345) or Output VAT Liability A/c (67890), i would suggest to use the functionality of post with clearing F.05 to transfer the amount to VAT (ABCDE) so that you do not end up with huge line items. I would suggest to use amount in local currency as a parameter along with Profit center or business area to clear the historical items. Generally you will have multiple items of a particular period for various invoices, which would need to be offset against a single line item in a month. In this case, Assignment field (ZUONR) might not be the right criterion to maintain in OB74 for automatic clearing at month end.

Hope this helps

Thanks & Regards

Sanil Bhandari

[beata58]

Thank you sanil0309

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