SAP ABAP Data Element FOT_RFD_CTRY (Tax Refund Country)

Hierarchy

☛ SAP_FIN (Software Component) SAP_FIN
   ⤷ FI (Application Component) Financial Accounting
     ⤷ FOT_EDECLARATION (Package) Electronic Advance Return for Tax on Sales/Purchases

Basic Data

Data Element	FOT_RFD_CTRY
Short Description	Tax Refund Country

Data Type

Category of Dictionary Type	D	Domain
Type of Object Referenced		No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type	LAND1
Data Type	CHAR	Character String
Length	3
Decimal Places	0
Output Length	3
Value Table	T005

Further Characteristics

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Parameter ID	LND
Default Component name	TAX_RFD_CTRY
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No Input History	☐
Basic direction is set to LTR	☐
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Field Label

	Length	Field Label
Short	10	Rfd Cntry
Medium	17	Refund Country
Long	21	Tax Refund Country
Heading	21	Tax Refund Country

Documentation

Definition

Country in which an enterprise has paid tax which it reclaims using the VAT refund procedure.

In the case of the VAT refund procedure within the European Union, the tax reporting country and the tax refunding country can be different.

Use

Dependencies

Example

1. An enterprise has its headquarters in Germany only.
2. An employee of this enterprise goes to Italy on a business trip where he or she pays a hotel billthat contains Italian value-added tax.
3. The enterprise that is subject to tax can request a refund for this VAT that was paid to the Italian tax authority. It does this by sending a request for a VAT refund to the tax authority of its tax reporting country. In this case, Germany.
4. The German tax authority forwards the request to the tax authority of the tax refund country (Italy).
5. The Italian tax authority checks the VAT refund application.
6. A positive decision results in a refund of the VAT to the enterprise in Germany.

History

Last changed by/on	SAP	20110901
SAP Release Created in	605