1. Technical Field of the Invention
This invention pertains to a system and method for processing tax codes by company group in a front-end processor to bridge to a back-end purchasing system.
2. Background Art
When companies purchase goods, there are certain requirements for taxation. Taxation requirements differ by county, city, state, country and other locales, creating processing problems in paying those taxes correctly. Most companies use tax packages to determine taxability, based on where the goods are shipped; however, this does not take into account items that are purchased for research purposes or government contracts, which are not taxable. In certain companies, the people ordering the goods know the taxability and the shipping information, and can determine the taxability at the time of the order, but they are not usually the ones who interface with the tax packages; this is usually left to the Accounts Payable area.
There is a need in the art to provide an automated process for assigning taxability codes to purchases by company groups, and to automatically adapt to those company groups the processing of tax payments.
There is a further need to provide in a front end for the assignment of taxability codes, to thereby reduce the amount of work required on a back end process for resolving tax issues.
It is an object of the invention to provide an improved system and method for processing tax payments.
It is a further object of the invention to provide a system and method for assigning taxability codes to purchases by company groups, and to automatically adapt to those company groups the processing of tax payments.
In accordance with the invention, there is provided a system and method for assigning taxability codes to purchases and processing tax invoices, the method including the steps of receiving from a user, identified by company indicia to one of a plurality of company groups, a purchase requisition for a service or commodity object; responsive to the indicia and object, determining in a front end process a tax code and tax location based on defined business rules; feeding the tax code and tax location code to a back end process; in the back end process, converting the tax code and tax location to a tax jurisdiction code with associated tax rate and preparing a purchase order identified to the appropriate company group for transmittal.
In accordance with an aspect of the invention, there is provided a computer program product configured to be operable to assigning taxability codes to purchases, and processing tax invoices, by company groups.
Other features and advantages of this invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the presently preferred embodiment of the invention, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
In accordance with the preferred embodiments of the invention, a system and method are provided for identifying specific tax jurisdiction codes and appropriate tax indicator codes by company groups, in a front-end procurement system to bridge to a back-end purchasing system for appropriate processing. This provides a system and method for automating the process of configuring tax processing across multiple companies and groups of associated companies.
Further in accordance with the invention, there is provided a system and method for assigning taxability codes to purchases, and processing tax invoices, by company groups at the time of placing the order. A user, identified to one of a group of companies, inputs a requisition. Depending upon the user's company group and business processes, the user may be required to select an appropriate tax code and tax location for the goods to be purchased, or have it assigned automatically. This capability is associated with individual line items, rather than the entire requisition. Certain companies may require the tax code to be assigned by a “tax approver,” who reviews the requisition items and assigns tax codes as appropriate. Tax code and tax location are identified in a front end process applicable to the object of the requisition and converted into a converted tax code and tax jurisdiction and fed to a back end processor. Responsive to converted tax code and the tax jurisdiction for the corresponding company group, the back end prepares a purchase order which is transmitted to a supplier. Responsive to an invoice from the supplier and company group and tax code indicia from the purchase order, the back end processes and selectively pays, short pays, or rejects the invoice.
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In step 201, a user logs on to the Requisition and Catalog application (Req/Cat). His user profile determines the company group.
In step 203, users in group A use the tax process shown in
In step 209, a Req/Cat requisition is created.
In step 211, the Req/Cat requisition is bridged to SAP, with the tax code and tax location sent to SAP. The tax location code is converted to a SAP tax jurisdiction code by the bridge. SAP is an acronym (derived from a German language phrase) which refers to an enterprise resource planning system, including an accounting application having an accounts payable function.
In step 213, the SAP requisition is created, and the tax information is stored in a requisition table.
In step 215, the purchase order is created using tax information from the requisition table.
In step 217, the invoice is received from the supplier.
In step 219, invoices for companies in group A are processed as shown in
User profiles contain a default tax location code for the user. This is derived from the user's plant code (a plant has an associated tax location code, based on its address). A user can edit his profile at any time and change this default tax location code.
When a user logs onto the front-end, he is associated with a user profile that has what company group and company he is in. (There is a feed from the HR system with this information, that guarantees the user is in the correct company group, as is more fully described in copending application Ser. No. 09/815,318.) The business logic in the front-end then determines how much information the user must enter for taxes, based on his company group. In some cases; the user sees nothing—the system defaults to a tax code and location. In another company group, the user must select both. And in another, the user doesn't see anything—the tax approver must determine these fields.
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First is the tax code field 112. The field tax code 112 defaults with the value “taxable”. However, the user may choose a non taxable reason for the purchase from a drop down list 108 with which, as is represented by line 107, to override the default entry to tax code 112. In this embodiment, by way of example, tax codes available for user selection in list 108 include the following:
Second is the tax location field 114. As is represented by line 103 to line item selection 106 in user requisition interface 104, the field tax code 112 defaults in user profile 102 to the company location code 100. Location code 100 can be changed by user actuation at selection 106 according to the desired point for shipment of the goods, and as represented by line 105 this selection is fed to tax location field 114 in Req/Cat application 110.
The tax code 112 and tax location 114 are fed, as is represented by lines 109 and 111, respectively, to SAP requisition table 116. As is represented by line 115, the tax location field 120 is converted to a SAP tax jurisdiction code field 122. The tax code 118 and tax jurisdiction 122 for a given requisition 113 line in table 116 are used when the purchase order is created from the requisition. The tax code 118 and jurisdiction code 122 combination is maintained in SAP via a FTXP transaction. A periodic update spreadsheet is provide by the company to maintain the tax rates in table 126. A SAP purchase order contains the tax code 118 and tax jurisdiction code 122 as these are determined in Req/Cat 110. The purchase order output 124 contains a tax code 118 description, a jurisdiction code 122 description and the tax rate from table 126 corresponding to tax jurisdiction 122.
The tax code and tax location code from the front-end are passed to the back-end and stored in a table for each requisition line item. The 3-position tax location from the front-end is converted to a 9-digit tax jurisdiction code. For example, tax location 33F in the front-end is converted to tax jurisdiction 33F000000. Each tax code (ie I1, N1, N2 . . . etc) is maintained with each tax jurisdiction (ie 33I000000, 33F000000 . . . ) to arrive at a rate in the back-end. The tax code and tax jurisdiction for the given requisition line is used when the purchase order is created from the requisition. A monthly update spreadsheet is provided by the companies to maintain the rates. The purchase order contains the tax code/tax jurisdiction code as was determined in the front-end. The purchase order output contains the tax code description, the jurisdiction code description and the tax rate.
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At step 142, when purchase order 124 contains a non-taxable code 138 and invoice 132 contains no tax 140, the invoice is paid as presented by the supplier 130.
At step 144, when purchase order 133 contains a non-taxable code 138 and invoice 132 invoices tax 140, the invoice is short paid. That is, the invoiced amount less the tax is paid to the supplier, and as is represented by line 141 the supplier is notified via payment advice text that the invoice is paid short the tax.
At step 146, when purchase order 133 contains a taxable code 138 and invoice 132 contains tax 140, the invoice is paid as presented by supplier 130, and any warning messages from SAP that a different rate or amount was calculated from tax rates table 126 are ignored.
At step 148, when purchase order 133 contains a taxable code 138 and invoice 132 does not contain tax 140, the invoice is paid as presented by supplier 130. As is represented by line 143, the accounts payable representative, in this case, in step 150 will selected in the invoice verification procedure a calculate tax routine (such as by clicking on a tax calculation button in the invoice verification window), changing the tax code to UI in an invoice detail screen. In step 152, SAP will then calculate the tax, charging the expense account and crediting the tax account.
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The tax code for each general ledger (G/L) account is maintained in validation table 162 for companies in this company group 160. Tax codes 112 for this scenario are as follows:
An X or blank means that the tax determination cannot be made automatically. In this case, the requisition is sent for management approval and then held pending a review and determination of the correct tax code by the tax department.
—A user from company 160 has a default tax location entered in his user profile 102 which will be displayed in line item tax location selection field 106 at interface 104 when requesting a purchase. The user may change the value for tax location. As is represented by line 105, the default or user selected tax location is entered to tax location field 114 in Req/Cat 110. However, tax code fields are hidden, or shown as non-changeable, at user requisition interface 104 for users in all companies in company group 160. In the tax department, this tax code is viewable and changeable by the tax approver. —.
Determination of the tax rate for a given object is determined by tax code 112 and tax location 114. Within Req/Cat 110, as is represented by line 167, tax location 114 is converted to tax jurisdiction 122 and stored in requisition table 116. As is represented by line 161, tax code 112 goes through a requisition approval process 164 which, in the event of an X or blank code 112 requires in steps 166 and 168 tax department review and determination of the applicable tax code.
Bridging from Req/Cat 110 to SAP 116 is then done. In step 170, the resulting tax code is converted to a SAP tax code and, as represented by line 165, stored in converted tax code field 174 in requisition table 116. In the event that in step 168 it is determined that the intended supplier is not registered to collect tax, the tax is accrued to the state (tax jurisdiction). Tax code conversion step 170 may be executed with respect to a tax code conversion table, such as is illustrated in Table 1.
As is represented by lines 119, 121 and 169, the purchase order 124 is created by line item from converted tax code 174, tax jurisdiction 122, and tax rate tables 126. An example output purchase order 124 may read: “I1 Taxable, Item subject to Tax CT—Connecticut 6%”.
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A company taxability table 180 is maintained for all companies in this company group which includes, for each general ledger account 182, the appropriate tax code 184 and tax ship to location 186. Table 2 illustrates a sample primary taxability table 180.
In this example, when a purchase is made using G/L account 021500000 and the requestor's tax ship to location is CT2, then the tax code E1 and tax location CT2 would be populated to Req/Cat 110 field 112 and 114, respectively. The combination of this tax code 184 and tax location 186 drive the taxability of the requisition line item 192. The tax code of AB in Table 2 represents that the taxable other code is applicable but other factors could make the purchase non-taxable. In that case, a secondary taxability check 196 needs to be performed.
In the example of Table 2, the tax codes 184 used for each tax location 186 code are as follows:
When condition *B is encountered in primary taxability table 180, secondary check routine 196 is Req/Cat 110 will need to look at the cost center type 194 (also derived from table 180) to determine taxability.
User requisition interface 104 is initialized with a default ship to location from user profile 102 in field 188, which the user may accept or change. As is represented by lines 181 and 185, the tax ship to location selected or accepted is fed to Req/Cat 110 tax location field 114. At user requisition interface 104, the user selects from an item description and general ledger account pull down panel 190, the general ledger account number 182 for the desired purchase, and this is used to access table 180 to obtain the corresponding tax code which is then fed, as is represented by line 183, to tax code field 112 in Req/Cat 110. As in the preceding scenarios, tax code 112 and tax location 114 are converted and fed to requisition table 116, from which purchase order 124 is created.
A secondary taxability check is provided in this scenario to further define taxability. When the tax code 184 found in primary taxability table 180 ends with a B, for example, routine 196 determines taxability from the cost center type 194 contained in the requisition line item.
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It is an advantage of the invention that there is provided an improved system and method for processing tax payments.
It is a further advantage of the invention that there is provided a system and method for assigning taxability codes to purchases by company groups, and to automatically adapt to those company groups the processing of tax payments.
It will be appreciated that, although specific embodiments of the invention have been described herein for purposes of illustration, various modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. In particular, it is within the scope of the invention to provide a computer program product or program element, or a program storage or memory device such as a solid or fluid transmission medium, magnetic or optical wire, tape or disc, or the like, for storing signals readable by a machine, for controlling the operation of a computer according to the method of the invention and/or to structure its components in accordance with the system of the invention.
Further, each step of the method may be executed on any general computer, such as an IBM System 390, AS/400, PC or the like and pursuant to one or more, or a part of one or more, program elements, modules or objects generated from any programming language, such as C++, Java, Pl/1, Fortran or the like. And still further, each said step, or a file or object or the like implementing each said step, may be executed by special purpose hardware or a circuit module designed for that purpose.
Accordingly, the scope of protection of this invention is limited only by the following claims and their equivalents.
This application is a continuation of and claims priority to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/816,264 filed Mar. 23, 2001 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,386,495 by S. B. Cirulli, et al., entitled SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING TAX CODES BY COMPANY GROUP. The following U.S. patent applications, filed concurrently or otherwise copending, are assigned to the assignee hereof and contain subject matter related, in certain respect, to the subject matter of the present application. Ser. No. 09/657,215, filed 7 Sep. 2000, entitled “System and Method for Clustering Servers for Performance and Load Balancing”; Ser. No. 09/657,216, filed 7 Sep. 2000, entitled “System and Method for Front End Business Logic and Validation;Ser. No. 09/657,217, filed 7 Sep. 2000, entitled “System and Method for Data Transfer With Respect to External Applications”;Ser. No. 09/656,037, filed 7 Sep. 2000, entitled “System and Method for Providing a Relational Database Backend;Ser. No. 09/656,803, filed 7 Sep. 2000, entitled “System and Method for Providing a Role Table GUI via Company Group”;Ser. No. 09/656,967, filed 7 Sep. 2000, entitled “System and Method for Populating HTML Forms Using Relational Database Agents”;Ser. No. 09/657,196, filed 7 Sep. 2000, entitled “System and Method for Catalog Administration Using Supplier Provided Flat Files”;Ser. No. 09/657,195, filed 7 Sep. 2000, entitled “System and Method for Providing an Application Navigator Client Menu Side Bar”;Ser. No. 09/819,462, entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATING INVOICE PROCESSING WITH POSITIVE CONFIRMATION”;Ser. No. 09/815,318, entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A COMPANY GROUP USER PROFILE”;Ser. No. 09/819,437, entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING DATA ACROSS FRAMES USING ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES”;Ser. No. 09/815,317, entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING LEDGER ACCOUNTS BY COMPANY GROUP”;Ser. No. 09/815,320, entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GROUPING COMPANIES ACCORDING TO ACCOUNTING SYSTEM OR RULES”;Ser. No. 09/815,316, entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FRAME STORAGE OF EXECUTABLE CODE”;Ser. No. 09/815,313, entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INVOICE IMAGING THROUGH NEGATIVE CONFIRMATION PROCESS”;Ser. No. 09/815,312, entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LEVERAGING PROCUREMENT ACROSS COMPANIES AND COMPANY GROUPS”; andSer. No. 09/798,598, filed 2 Mar. 2001, entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING INTERNET TRADING NETWORKS”.The above-identified patent applications are incorporated herein by reference.
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