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You can define various tax rates for IPI, ICMS, SubTrib and ISS, which the system then accesses during tax calculation in the sequence described below. The standard values correspond to those published by the government, and they are based on a certain factor or combination of factors:

Standard Tax Values

Tax Rate

Factor(s)

IPI

NCM code

ICMS

Ship-from tax region
Ship-to tax region

SubTrib

Ship-from tax region
Ship-to tax region

ISS

Material

In addition, you can define exceptions for each tax rate. Dynamic exceptions allow you to define special rates based on key fields stored in the customer, vendor, and material master records, as well as the tax code, which is taken from the item level in the transactions. By means of tax groups, which you then assign to the dynamic exception tables, you can define up to three key fields that the system uses to determine the appropriate tax rate in the case of dynamic exceptions.

Recommendation

You can also define material-dependent exceptions, but we recommend that you define any rate exceptions using dynamic exceptions; the material is one of the key fields you can define for your tax group.

Lastly, you can define default values for IPI, ICMS, and ISS (not SubTrib), which the system uses if it does not determine a valid rate in the other tax rate tables.

Priority of Values

During tax calculation, the system searches for the correct tax rate in the tax rate tables. It looks in the following tables for each tax type, in the specified sequence, and takes the first rate it finds:

  1. Material-dependent exceptions
  2. Dynamic exceptions
  3. Standard values
  4. Default values (for ICMS, IPI, and ISS only)

See also:

Taxes: Customizing, for IMG paths for defining tax rates and tax groups for dynamic exceptions, under Tax Calculation

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