Cost center determination in tax account

Question

Dear Experts,
I am facing an issue when posting taxes.
I have the following need: when a sale is posted we have to calculate 1% tax. This tax is company’s responsibility; therefore I want to post a credit amount to a balance sheet account (with the value we owe to state) and a debit amount to a cost account.
In order to do this I configured a VAT tax code (there is no VAT in the company’s country) with keys ESA (-1%) and ESE (1%) and associated the balance sheet account to operation ESA and the cost account to operation ESE.
The issue is that, when posting cost account I am obliged to a cost center (and in fact I need it). I could define a standard cost center at OKB9, however, I need a cost center for each profit center responsible for the sale. If I configure OKB9 with profit center detail neither profit or cost centers are determined in the entry view, buy only in the General Ledger view (new GL is active and V_FAGL_SPLIT_FL2 configured with the flag “Assign to tax”).
Is there a way to use the new GL determination and document splitting in order to split the entry view and determine the correct profit and cost centers?
Is there any other way to solve this issue?
Thanks in advance.
Francisco

Answer 1

Hi Vojas ,
At times it becomes necessary to assign Cost Centers in Sales orders , especially when we intend to capture some expenses through Sales and Distribution and post them to a default Cost Center based on a Certain combination of Key Data structure elements.
This can be done thru transaction OVF3 - Assign Cost Centers.
This may be required in the following scenarios -
Free Deliveries
Returns
Deliveries of Adverstising materials etc.,
The Cost Centers can be assigned against a Combination of Sales Org + Distribution Channel + Division + Order reason.
Regards,
Venkat.