ALD VAT Sum Question

Question

I am a realy newbie regarding to the ALD in Business One.
I am trying to print out at the end of my producttable in my invoice a line like this:
"incl. VAT with Code A2 at 16,00% (for instance) of (the amount of all the lines which are calculated with the Code A2) (and then the sum of the taxes)"
Could you tell me how to describe the function ?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I had the same problem. At first it looks as though SAP has already worked upon tax summaries inside ALD, but there was no way to find out how they should work.
One can only shout out loud that, at least with german laws, <b><i>ALD is no use for sales documents as long as it can't produce VAT sums</i></b>.
<u><b>Here's a workaround:</b></u>
1. Create three sum variables for each relevant vat group:
- price before taxation (e.g. "PRICE")
- price after taxation (e.g. "GROSS")
- tax itself (e.g. "VAT")
Example:
Implementing two tax groups, create:
@PRICE1,@PRICE2,@GROSS1,@GROSS2,@VAT1,@VAT2
2. Use conditional accumulation for the sum variables:
Example for a @GROSS1 variable:
if( Belegzeile.Steuerdefinition_VatGroup.Code="A1" , Belegzeile.Preis_inkl__Steuer * Belegzeile.Menge , 0 )
Sorry 'bout the german field names; I'm sure it'll be easy to translate.
3. Create taxation summary in the footer of your table:
- Add one line per tax group.
- Use the corresponding sum variables to print out values.
- Use one of the sum variables for definition of a print condition. Example:
@GROSS1>0
The corresponding VAT sum line will only be printed if there are amounts available in the current document.
That's all!
It's quite easy, but it requires static definition of known tax groups. Sum variables can only be numeric, so there's no way to extract the tax group names from the database for later use.
However, to create a more generic template you can define the group names and codes by user variables. Usage of such "constants" could make adaption of form templates much easier (I use them for tax names and fstring$ format definitions).
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Extension:
If you want to extract the vat percentage rates into sum variables you would have to expand the variable calculations as such (example for sum variable @PERC1):
if(@PERC1=0 and Belegzeile.Steuerdefinition_VatGroup.Code="A1",Belegzeile.USt__Prozentsatz_pro_Zeile,0)
@PERC_A1 will only be accumulated once and takes over a single desired value.
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