Changes

• Updated Avalara.AvaTax API to release version 22.2.1

Avalara announced in this post an update in their REST v2 API security, that is the API used by the AvaTax connector for SAP Business One.

TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol is used to access Avalara and consume the API for calculations. Avalara announced that using TLS version 1.2 or superior will be mandatory starting 2022, stopping support for older versions.

For Sandbox accounts since Feb 1, 2022.

Changes

• Updated Avalara.AvaTax API to release version 22.2.0
• Enabled capability to process partial deliveries to invoices in Document Generation Wizard, Event Service and WebUI.
• Fixed decimal tax values to UDFs for european localizations.

Markup percentage for tax calculation on Drop Shipments

Based on customer requirements a new feature is included in the solution. The option to configure a markup percentage over the document lines when the sale is a drop ship in a specific ship-to state.

For example in the state of California, it’s required to calculate the taxes based on the sale taxable amount plus 10%. Meaning the resulting tax amount for the document will be calculated based on the document total plus 10%, while the document total before tax will remain the same in SAP.

Tax calculation on AR/Down Payments Invoice

Tax calculation in AR/Down Payments was possible, but you could usually expect the calculated tax to be zero, because the Tax Liable value for any line is fixed to No in SAP Business One.

This produces the line to be sent as Not Liable to AvaTax, resulting usually in an exempt line, without calculated tax.

Now we have included a configuration setting to ignore this field, send the lines as liable, and get the tax calculated as if the lines are liable.

Discount on freight lines 

Until now, when sending freight lines as line items to AvaTax, by default the lines were considered to apply discounts.

This means when applying a document header level discount in SAP, the discount is distributed by AvaTax on all document lines that have the discounted flag.

Now there is a new setting to control if the freight lines are discounted or not. Disabling this settings will make the SAP document header discount not applied by AvaTax to the freight lines.

Release Notes

Starting version 21.11.03, the AvaTax add-on includes support for VAT calculation for European countries, and using European SAP B1 Company Localizations.

The AvaTax add-on is now compliant with the AvaTax API enhancements, detailed here.

Release Notes

• Included support for VAT calculation for Europe.
• Support for SAP Service Layer on AvaTax webUI. Available for SAP 10 10.00.140+
• Multiple performance improvements in tax calculation.

Breaking changes

AvaTax settings was updated. You need to re-select all of your freights configurations in the settings despite the tax calculation mode you are using.

Release Notes

Improvements for Service Layer calculation with DGW.

Support to use same SAP Tax Jurisdiction for different Avatax Jurisdictions.

Release Notes

Support for empty or removed Bill To in document

In previous versions reconcile will raise an error like Post failed: BillTo Bemidji – Minnesota not found for BP Code 17379 if the Bill To used in the document is modified or deleted at BP Master Data Address records.

Support for items with quotes in the ItemCode

For example ItemCode EZP-EL-18-10′-W

AvaTax Location code and empty Ship-To address