Tax Jurisdiction issues in AR Invoice Creation

Question

MODULE = AR
EBS Version = R12.1
EBS Tax is setup
Hi All
I am currently trying to mimic the functionality in the front end of AR Transaction workbench from the back end via Auto Invoice process
From the front end+
When I manually create an invoice and create an invoice line, I get 3 tax lines automatically created. These 3 lines correspond to the State, City and County Tax .
The values I get for Tax fields are =>
Tax Regime Code = US_SALES_USE_TAX,
Tax = CITY, COUNTY or STATE,
TAX Jurisdiction = ATLANTA, FULTON, GEORGIA (Sample)
Rate = (1.0, 4.0, 2.0) (Sample)
and so on
Backend*
Now from the backend, I am trying to convert legacy invoices using AutoInvoice.
So when I pass the values of Tax Jurisdiction = ATLANTA, FULTON, GEORGIA (Sample) for my 3 tax lines, I get an error of undefined Tax Jurisdiction.
Of course when I query the jurisdictions table, ZX_JURISDICTIONS_B, these values are not defined.
So the question is how do these values get populated from the front end but not from the back end.
I want to create tax lines and tax amounts from the legacy data and show the tax amounts as they are brought over from data extract i.e. I do not want EBS tax to calculate tax for me - rather just let me pass amounts in the RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL table
I have read the metalink id 731149.1 and I am basically using that to create manual tax lines. If I pass one of the values that is defined in the ZX_JURISDICTIONS_B table, I am able to create a tax line, but the jurisdiction code defined there are wierd ( sample jurisdiction defined = ST-370000000)
Bottom line is that the ZX_JURISDICTIONS table does not have state, city county names defined in the table but it still shows them when tax lines are automatically created for manual invoices.
When I try to populate those in the RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL table I get an error.
Thanks
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Edited by: user13293643 on Aug 30, 2010 8:19 AM

Answer 1

From my point of view you have only 1 chance:
- Find a criteria of the imported invoices, which is avaible in the Tax Rules as condition (e.g. specific transaction types or you used a specific tax code by the import)
- Put the tax line manual in the Autoinvoice from the frond end system
- Defined a rule for each tax in the EBS Tax manager: Principell logic: If Tax_Code/transaction type = ABC then tax non-applicable
Which this rule, no standard tax code is selected by EBS Tax, the tax is disable for the transaction and only the imported tax lines are booked.
By my last customer I had the same problem and we have investigate many time.
We have used for the imported invoices special tax codes and these tax code used for the disable of the tax in the tax rules.