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Withholding Tax
Use
In France, you are obliged to withhold tax on a range of payments. For France, you use the Extended Withholding Tax solution.

For more information about the generic functions, see Withholding Tax.

Note
If you are installing an SAP system for the rst time, we recommend that you use the Extended Withholding Tax solution.

Prerequisites
To be able to use extended withholding tax, you need to make a number of Customizing settings for Financial Accounting (New):

Maintain withholding tax types

Maintain withholding tax codes

De ne general ledger account codes for each withholding tax type and withholding tax code combination

Activities
To report withholding taxes in France, use the Generic Withholding Tax Reporting (RFIDYYWT) program as described in Generic
Withholding Tax Reporting.

Withholding Tax Type

De nition
See withholding tax type. For generic information about withholding tax types, see De ning Withholding Tax Types.

Use
Customizing

When you de ne the withholding tax types for use in France, you carry out the settings in Customizing for Financial Accounting
(New), by choosing Financial Accounting Global Settings (New) Withholding Tax Extended Withholding
Tax Calculation Withholding Tax Type De ne Withholding Tax Type for Payment Posting .

Country Version France comes with the following withholding tax types:

Integration
You use withholding tax types in conjunction with withholding tax codes.

Withholding Tax Code

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De nition
See Withholding Tax Code. For generic information about withholding tax codes, see De ning Withholding Tax Codes.

Use
While withholding tax types represent basic calculation rules, speci c features of these rules – in particular the percentage rate –
are represented by the withholding tax code. You can de ne any number of withholding tax codes for a given withholding tax type.

Customizing

When you de ne the withholding tax codes for use in France, carry out the settings in Customizing for Financial Accounting
(New), by choosing Financial Accounting Global Settings (New) Withholding Tax Extended Withholding
Tax Calculation Withholding Tax Code De ne Withholding Tax Codes .

Customizing for Withholding Tax

To customize the withholding tax functions for use in France, perform the following activities:

Carry out the generic Customizing settings as described in Settings for Extended Withholding Tax: Overview

Carry out the settings speci c to France as described in the following documentation

Customizing for Company Code Data

Context
To customize company code data for use in France, make settings as described below. For more information about company
codes, see Company Code.

Procedure
1. In Customizing for Financial Accounting (New), choose Financial Accounting Global Settings (New) Global Parameters
for Company Code Enter Global Parameters .

2. Double-click the relevant company code.

3. In the VAT Registration No. eld, maintain the company’s VAT number.

The VAT number of a company consists of the country key (FR) followed by the followed by the company’s enterprise
number (unique identi cation number of the company). If the company does not have a VAT number, then you need not
maintain this eld.

4. Choose the Additional Data pushbutton. Enter the SIRET number and CODE APE number for identi cation purposes in the
Parameter value elds.

5. Choose . In the Edit address dialog box, enter the E-mail address of the contact person.

In the Communication group box, choose the Other communication… pushbutton. In the Choose Communication
Method dialog box, double-click X40. The Maintain X400 addresses dialog box appears. In the Person group box, enter
the rst name and last name of the contact person.

De ning Output Groups

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Context
For withholding tax reporting in France, you de ne the output groups as described below.

Procedure
1. In Customizing for Financial Accounting (New), choose Financial Accounting Global Settings (New) Withholding
Tax Extended Withholding Tax Generic Withholding Tax Reporting De ne Output Groups .

2. De ne an output group for France using the following settings:

a. In the Read Withholding Tax Items From group box, choose Vendor Payments, Including Down and Partial
Payments.

b. In the DME Files group box, select Save File in File System in the DME File eld and enter the format tree
FR_WT_DAS2.

3. Enter other data as required and save your entries.

Generic Withholding Tax Reporting

Use
In France, you use the Generic Withholding Tax Reporting program to prepare withholding tax returns to the authorities and
certi cates for your vendors.

Features
Country Version France allows you to create DME les in a format as required by law. The program uses DMEE format tree
FR_WT_DAS2 to generate the le. For more information, see Data Medium Exchange Engine.

Selection

On the selection screen of the main program, enter data as required. When you execute the Generic Withholding Tax Reporting
program for a French company code, the system displays an additional selection screen, where you can enter the country-speci c
data required for generating the les.

Output

When you execute the report, the program generates a at le.

Activities
To access the report, from the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Accounting Financial Accounting Accounts Payable
Withholding Tax General Generic Withholding Tax Reporting .

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