Tax Update and Forced Tax update

Question

Hi all,
Plz can anyone explain me what is the difference between Tax Update and Tax Forced Update.
Thank you,
sam

Answer 1

Wow, 2006. I'm guessing you are either not paying people from your system or one of your functional staff is manually modifying the tax tables. Hopefully it's the first option.
At our facility we apply tax updates once a year starting in late October or November. The exception to the rule is if one of our functional leads identifies something in a tax update that is critical and must be applied now.
You should start by downloading all of the tax updates. For the on-line objects apply them in order to your demo environment. For the COBOL, DMS and SQR build a staging directory for each type of program. Save programs to these directories in the order that the tax updates were delivered (i.e. a program modified in 2007A might be overlaid with the same program modified in 2007B). After that just go through the tedious process of identifying your customizations between what you currently have and what is in your staging directories (or demo database for the on-line objects). We typically create a third set of directories where we merge our customizations in with the new delivered code. This will eventually be moved to our test environment. Create a separate environment to do all of your testing from. Take your time.
Good luck.