Delete Withholding tax info in cleared document

Question

We recently made the change from classic to extended withholding tax. I've been able to successfully run RFWT0010 and RFWT0020 when the withholding tax in a vendor master record was changed. However, we have several vendors the were marked as 1099 vendors (non employee compensation) that really are not subject to withholding tax. I've removed the withholding tax data in the vendor master record, but the documents still contain the withholding tax information, even after I've run both RFWT0010 and RFWT0020.  I've opened up those fields to be changed in document settings already. Is it not possible to delete or remove withholding tax from the document unless I do it manually through FB02?

Answer 1

We had the same problem. There is no SAP delivered tool like RFWT0010 and RFWT0020 that will work to delete withholding tax data from cleared documents.  However you can create a CATT script for transaction FB09 which will work to do this. I used SE16n to gather the needed information which is document number, Line item number and fiscal year. I uploaded the relevant vendor numbers into the query screen for table WITH_ITEM
I chose the relevant fiscal years, tax type FE, tax code not equal to blank, base amount not equal to zero,  i chose to display all those plus line item number document number, vendor number,  We only have one company code so that was not relevant for me.
I then copied that list into my Catt global variant spreadsheet and away I went. I would worn you about reversal documents you might want to exclude those.  I would create a Variant for these selections as well
Good luck
Also if it doesn't really matter what the historical line items say. I had the users simply exclude those vendors from 1099 selection criteria