Dear All,
I would like to share a big doubt I have regarding a requirement from our italian customer. According to article 36 from DPR 633/72 our customer needs to maintain two different VAT Books for Acquisitions (this is due to this company does not want to work in the standard Pro-Rata methodology):
- VAT Book for the taxable activy (i.e. 100% deductible)
- VAT Book for the exempt activit (i.e. 100% non-deductible)
According to the Official Document Number, in Italy, invoices included in a VAT Book should be numbered sequentially w/o gaps. We can afford this requirement easily by creating different Document Types for each of the previous VAT Books, in order to assign them to specific ODN interval numbers.
The problem we are facing of, is how to manage those mixed invoices (promiscua as they called them in Italy) that affects both of the VAT Books?
If ODN were not a problem, we could have followed the Pro-Rata procedure (configuring Pro-Rata vat codes). The problem is that this company needs to maintain independent accounting books. They currently split the vendor invoice into two different accounting documents, in order to have them numbered in the two different VAT Books, sequentially and without gaps).
The problem is, even if we work in this way in SAP (i.e. independent document types, and independent accounting), how to manage those mixed invoices that comes from a single purchase order (how to create two different accounting documents from a unique purchase order...)? how to skip the double invoice check - i mean, in fact for a unique vendor invoice we need to create two invoices with the same invoice number)? I know that the previous problems has its specific solutions (partial MIRO, fake reference field, etc.) but this requirements sound really strange for me (SAP has told us that, it has never received a requirement like this, and that the only solution would be different accounting documents).
Has anybody of you faced a similiar requirement in a Italian Company (l’impresa che applica la separazione delle attività ai fini IVA)?
Thanks in advance
Best Regards
Message was edited by: Ismael B.