Business Places (SD)
Use
In Thailand, each business place is responsible for collecting and reporting its own value-added tax (VAT) (for more information, see Business Places (FI)).
Since most billing documents that you create in Sales and Distribution (SD) contain VAT amounts, the system automatically assigns each billing document to the appropriate business place. This means that when a business place prepares its tax returns, they also show the VAT items from those documents.
Activities
Customizing
Since the business place's purpose is to collect and report VAT items, it is essentially a Financial Accounting (FI) organizational unit. So first, set up the business places as described under Business Places (FI).
Then specify which business place each of your plants belongs to, in Customizing for Cross-Application Components, by choosing General Application Functions → Cross-Application Document Numbering → Thailand → Business Places → Business Place Determination → Assign Business Places to Plants.
Day-to-Day Activities
When you create a billing document, the system automatically assigns it to the business place from the delivering plant.
If the goods that are to be invoiced were delivered from different plants assigned to different business places, the system automatically creates separate billing documents for each business place (see Separate Billing Documents for Different Business Places).
When you release the billing document to FI, the system automatically creates an accounting document, assigning each line item in it to the business place from the billing document.
If you create another billing document for the invoice, for example, a credit memo, the system automatically assigns the new billing document to the same business place as the original invoice.
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