When creating an article master record, you do not normally know the sites in which the article is to be managed. This means that you do not normally know the delivering countries either. For this reason, you can define a default country at client level in Customizing for the Article Master in Make Global Settings.

If only one tax category exists for the default country, you can specify the tax classification of the article directly on the Basic Data screen in the standard SAP Retail System. If the tax classification is not consonant with the tax category of the default country, you are requested to correct it. This is because you can enter only tax classifications that have been assigned to the tax category in Customizing for Basic Functions (SD) in Define Tax Relevancy of Master Records.

If more than one tax category exists for the default country, they are listed on a separate screen which you can access by choosing Tax data. You must define a tax classification for each tax category. You can also enter tax classifications for other countries and tax categories on this screen.

The tax classification you specify for the default country is a default tax classification. When you subsequently define the sites in which the article is to be managed, the default tax classification is assigned to the countries and tax categories of the sites automatically. If the default tax classification is not allowed for a combination of delivering country and tax category, you are requested to correct it for this particular combination.

The delivering countries are determined on the basis of the sites assigned to the relevant distribution chain.