Business Activity Statement (BAS) Report and Box Reports are two similar reports in SAP Business One. In this article, I want to describe how BAS Reports differ from Box Reports.
BAS (Business Activity Statement) Reports are a feature that you can find in almost all localizations of SAP Business One that support VAT groups (e.g. in Poland, France, UK, Switzerland, Austria, Czechia but not in Germany).
If you cannot find BAS Reports in SAP Business One, check that you have activated the functionality in
Company Details
→
Accounting Data
by selecting the
Extended Tax Reporting
check box:
Please note that enabling
Extended Tax Reporting
changes how tax functionality works. So, we recommend that you learn more about the functionality by using your demonstration database first.
You will need to define the
Period Type
in which you send your VAT reports to the tax authorities:
The first three options correspond to the calendar year; the last option
Period
corresponds to the posting periods that are set up in your SAP Business One database. I will provide more details later in this article.
After you have enabled BAS reporting, you need continue with
BAS Code Definitions:
Although the
BAS Code Definitions – Setup
window looks similar to
Tax Declaration Boxes – Setup
window, there are differences in both forms and the later reports.
The first difference is that you can define the file format for the report:
You can choose a relevant option for the period frame file from the
List of Legal List Formats
(you need to first upload the file in the
Electronic File Manager
under
Administration
→
Setup
→
General
).
The second difference is that you can define boxes with type
Account
,
Manual Input
and
Single Choice
that are not available in
Tax Declaration Box – Setup
:
If you choose
Account
type, the
Summary
Field
is not taken into the consideration and SAP Business One takes the default value as
Base Amount
, which cannot be changed. By double-clicking on the row or using the
BAS Code Definitions - Rows
button, you can define one or several accounts for the box. You can narrow your selection by selecting the
Display Only Accts With Postings
checkbox:
There are no limitations to account selection in this form; you can choose a
Control
account, a
Cash
account or an account used for VAT postings.
For a box with
Manual Input
type, you do not need to define a
Summary Field
,
Debit/Credit
or anything else. You can type a value into the report when generating it.
For a box with
Single Choice
, the
Summary Field
and
Debit/Credit
are not relevant. The difference between
Manual Input
and
Single Choice
is that the administrator can set valid values for the box. It can be very convenient if you need to provide specific codes for some business operations in your file. You can define the codes in the same way as for other boxes by double-clicking on the or by selecting the
BAS Code Definitions – Rows
option.
In the
Formula
type box, you can define operations for the already defined boxes almost in the same way as in the