In Kuwait, as a business entity you must retain 5% of all invoices paid to subcontractors with whom you conduct business. You retain this amount until the subcontractor provides you with a clearance certificate issued by the Kuwaiti Tax Authority authorizing you to release the amount retained. This report allows you to generate a statement that lists the subcontractors with whom you have posted a tax retention.
It includes the following information:
Contract value
Amount billed in previous year
Cost for current year
Total billed to date
Retention to date
You have made the settings described in Customizing for Statutory Reports
You have a document that has a posted retention.
You have activated the business function MM, Integration Materials Management and Financial Accounting (LOG_MMFI_P2P
).
You have defined a special G/L indicator for each company code in the Customizing activity Define Control Parameters for Retention
.
You have created a purchase order with the retention defined as a percentage of the purchase order value at the header or item level.
You have defined a new payment block reason for Kuwait in Customizing for Financial Accounting (New)
, under
You have created a new installment payment term to be assigned to subcontractors in Customizing for Financial Accounting (New)
, under
You have created a new payment term to be assigned to the retention line item that will be blocked until the tax certificate is shared by the subcontractor in Customizing for Financial Accounting (New)
, under
You have defined the terms of payment for installment payments in Customizing for Financial Accounting (New)
, under
You have assigned the payment term to the relevant vendors on the SAP Easy Access
screen, under
You have created a special G/L indicator for account type K
(Vendor) in Maintain Accounting Configuration
which you use to post subcontractor retentions.
The report lists contractors for whom you have posted a tax retention according to the following scenarios:
Material Management (MM)
You created a purchase order with the retention defined as a percentage of the purchase order value at the header or item level.
Financials (FI)
You posted the retention using installment payment terms.
You posted the retention using a special G/L indicator.
Note
The report will not recognize retention posted by any other method than those listed above.
You specify the selection criteria according to which the report selects the subcontractors with whom a retention has been posted.
Under General Selection
– enter a company code (mandatory) and a vendor (optional) .
Under Report Selection
– enter fiscal year as the reporting year (mandatory field).
Select the Output Type
required:
For the ALV output, select the ALV radio button.
For the PDF print preview option, select the PDF radio button. It is also possible to print the PDF from the ALV output screen after reviewing the data in the ALV.
For direct printing, select the direct printing radio button and enter the printer in the selection screen.
Note
If you select a form version that is not assigned to this report in the Customizing activity Assign PDF Forms to Reports
then the results will be incorrect.
The ALV output displays the source document for the retention; whether it is a purchase order, invoice, or contract. This information is not displayed in the PDF output.
Note
The output values that you see are summed at the parent document level. For example, in an instance where multiple purchase orders are part of a single contract, the value displayed in Total Billed to Date
is the sum of all billings against the contract. In the ALV output, you double-click the parent document to view the details of the related documents.
To access this report on the SAP Easy Access
screen, choose , KW_SUBST