The Process Key (SAP Library - Taxes (FI-AP/AR))

The Process Key

The process key contains the following properties:

Tax type. This is required for reporting purposes, to be able to determine where the individual tax line items in a document are to be displayed. As tax type you can specify either output tax ( 1 ), input tax ( 2 ), additional tax ( 3 ) or not relevant to tax ( 4 ).

Non-deductible input tax. This specification is also required for reporting. When input tax and non-deductible input tax is posted, separate line items are created if the non-deductible part is not to be distributed to the G/L account line items and asset line items. For tax reporting, you must indicate the input tax line items that do not display the non-deductible portion of input tax.

Posting indicator. You specify whether the tax amount is posted separately ( 2 ) or distributed between expense and revenue line items ( 3 ).

The system posts tax to the tax accounts automatically. You can specify tax account numbers for each process key. This is not necessary for process keys for which it has been specified that the tax amount is to be distributed (posting indicator 3 ). Therefore, these keys are not offered in the function for entering the tax account numbers.