Tax authorities

A tax authority is a government body with jurisdiction over the tax in a specific area. If you define a tax code, you can link the tax code to a tax authority.

You can use tax authority groups to group tax authorities geographically, by type of jurisdiction, or in any other way that is meaningful when you select or sort tax information for reporting purposes.

Note

Using tax authorities for reporting purposes is not restricted to American sales and use tax. You can link a tax authority to any type of tax code.

You can use tax authorities for the following purposes:

  • To sort tax reports by tax authority
  • To update all the tax rates for one tax authority

To set up tax authorities, take the following steps:

  1. Optionally define tax authority groups in the Tax Authority Groups (tcmcs1140m000) session.

  2. In the Tax Authorities (tcmcs1137m000) session, define the tax authorities. You can optionally assign the tax authority to a tax authority group.

  3. In the Tax Codes by Country (tcmcs0136s000) session, assign tax authorities to single-level tax codes.

    In the Multiple Tax Code Lines (tcmcs0135s000) session, assign tax authorities to multiple tax code lines.

You can sort tax reports by tax authority or tax authority group when you use the following sessions:

  • Print Tax Summary by Tax Authorities (tfgld8401m000).
  • Print Tax Analysis (tfgld1420m000).

In the Update Tax Rates by Tax Authority (tcmcs1201m000) session, you can update the tax rates for one tax authority. LN updates all the tax codes that are linked to the specified tax authority.

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