U.S. Tax Reporter Year End 2020

[graziela]

Hello community,

This blog is not updated anymore, instead the blog for 2021 was created:
U.S. Tax Reporter Year End 2021 | SAP Blogs


This is our U.S. Tax Reporter Year End 2020 blog. If you have questions about 2020 Year-End reporting, you can post it here. This blog will be updated with tips, best practices and, SAP Notes related to this subject.

To be able to access the Year-end 2020 in the Globalization finder page you need to be logged on (similar to SAP Service Marketplace) because it is a gated area and would need authorization.

To review the planned Legal changes for US, start the Announcement of Legal Change application. You can find detailed information about the Announcement of legal changes on this blog.

SAP Notes

Tax reporter notes

2956914 - W-2 / 1099-R Forms, Envelopes and PR Approval letter for year 2020
2954621 - U.S. Tax Reporter Year End 2020 Announcement
2955032 - Year End 2020 Phase I for U.S. Tax Reporter
2975038 - Year End 2020 Phase II for U.S. Tax Reporter
2994384 - (Prerequisite objects for SAP Note 2975038)
3001227 - Year End 2020 Phase III for U.S. Tax Reporter
3006708 - (Prerequisite objects for SAP Note 3001227)
3009810 - TR: Year End 2020 additional U.S. Tax Reporter changes.
3012513 - TR: Cleveland OH requires State Employer Account Number in RS record location 248
3010979 - TR: 1099-R Employee Form being generated for Distribution Codes with zero amounts
3012492 - TR: EFW2 file format changes for the Commonwealth of VA for Tax Year 2020
3017122 - TR: Idaho W-2 electronic file rejected by Tax Authority due to incorrect Date formatting in Record RS


General notes

2922369 - IMG: Runtime Error for 3PR Cluster Views V_T51RK_1 and V_T51RX
2990487 - BEN: Limits for retirement, savings plans and Health FSA contribution in tax year 2021
2991544 - RPCPRRU0: Exempt wage types incorrectly configured in TAXT group
3000740 - GARN: IRS Publication 1494 for tax year 2021

Taxes
3008339 - TAX: Community Safety Payroll Taxes for Eugene
3013127 - BSI: Enablement of Tax Type 106 for Concurrent Employment


Important:

If you had upgrade the system to SAPK-60886INSAPHRCUS you need to run report RPUPAV00 as explained in SAP note note which is included in this Support Package:
2923573 - FLSA: Extension of Infotypes 0015 and 0267 to Support Overtime Premium Over Bonuses

This is just for release 608, because infotypes 0015 and 0267 were extended and now have two additional fields so that you can inform the period of reference of the bonus payments. Due this you should run the report.


The ASUG HCM US Webcast 2020 Slide Deck has been attached to SAP Note 2954621 - U.S. Tax Reporter Year End 2020 Announcement. In case you are an ASUG member, you can view the webcast recording via video on-demand.

Kind regards,
Graziela

[graziela]

Hello Mushtaq,

I noticed that you already opened an incident for this.
As informed to Amanda you can use the CSUI, meantime I´m discussing this with Developer.

Regards,
Graziela

[former_member706545]

Thanks Graziela.

[amanda_fulcher]

Thank you Graziela,

The CSUI does work but along with the CCW2, the C941and TAXT application gives the same error "You must include the corresponding /4xx wage type".

Thanks,

Amanda

[cbird]

Is there an estimated date when TF 11 Cyclic C will be certified and released?

[KumarG]

Hi All,

We are producing the PDF W-2 standard form, HR_F_W2_MULT_11, for the employee copy. Would like to know best practices used for mailing the W-2 forms to the employees. Is the form mailed using the fully covered envelope, or envelope with the window.

Thanks

Kumar

 

[graziela]

Hi Kumar,

Please, check note:
2956914 - W-2 / 1099-R Forms, Envelopes and PR Approval letter for year 2020

Kind regards,
Graziela

[KumarG]

Hi Graziela,

Thank you for your help.

 

Kumar

 

 

[graziela]

Hello Christopher,

I have talked to the developer, they are still working on certifying the cyclic.
Once this is available I will publish here, we don´t have a estimate date yet.

Kind regards,
Graziela

[aruba2017]

 

Hello Graziela,

We are running into the exact issue as well and would like to know a fix for this ASAP because we are planning to go-live on 11/14/2020. .

 

Thanks,

Duong

 

 

[JagadeeshB]

Hi All,

We have recently installed SP Upgrade F0 to F8. We have run Payrolls before and after the installation of SP update, after the installation of SP update we are seeing Payroll difference in the wage type /559. We have raised oss message with SAP and SAP rep says this doesn't come under SAP scope even if the differences are coming after the SP upgrade.

Please let us know if anyone is also seeing differences in /559 wage type after the SP upgrade.

Thanks!

Jagadeesh.

 

[former_member66268]

Is anyone using the Multiple Worksite - Combined report in tax reporter (not the state level report)? our employee population exceeds 60k and each time we run for the largest tax company, it runs forever and never completes.

Thanks

Chandra

[aruba2017]

Hi Grazilela,

FYI, that I have resolved our issue.

What I did was just comment out Function  UPAR1 – BSI version flag in the SubSchema.

We are using custom Schema and SubSchema.

We are on BSI Version 11 and it does not play well with it because I recalled having to do the same with our Payroll SubSchema.

Regards,

Duong

[graziela]

Hi Duong,

Glad to heard that! Thank you for the update.

Regards,
Graziela

[graziela]

Hello Chandra,

Could you confirm if you already opened an incident about this?

Kind regards,
Graziela

[former_member66268]

Not yet, I will be opening today or tomorrow.

Thanks

Chandra

[former_member712493]

Hi Graziela,

Should we still expect a note to resolve this error?

Regards,

Monica

[graziela]

Hi Monica,

I will reach out the Developer tomorrow to get an update and I will let you know.

I think so, but I will confirm.

Thanks,
Graziela

[graziela]

Hi Chandra,

Just make sure constant TRSMP is set to ON in T511K. If this still not work, I will analyse the scenario.

Thank you,
Graziela

[graziela]

Hello all,

Just got an update from Developer, the cyclic has been certified by SAP.

Kind regards,
Graziela

[former_member66268]

Thanks graziela.dondoni  . Yes, the TRSMP is set to ON. I have started the job this morning (with TRSMP ON) but its still running. I opened a ticket. Take a look whenever possible.

Thanks

Chandra

[former_member66268]

Hello SAP team, our tax team has indicated couple of new taxes coming through effective 1/1/2021.  I wanted to ask if SAP is aware and/or working on it.

Connecticut Paid Family Leave Tax, effective 1/1/21. Details available here

Eugene, Oregon city tax, effective 1/1/21. Details available here

I did not see these listed in the Announcement of legal change, so was wondering. I'm assuming CT PFML would be just a BSI update but guessing the Eugene one may involve both SAP and BSI changes.

Any updates would be helpful.

Thanks

Chandra

[graziela]

Hi Monica,

I have confirmed that a note will be released. Once this is published I will post here.

Regards,
Graziela

[former_member633928]

Hi Jagadeesh,

Did you see any difference in Federal or state withholding? could you please explain about once Specific scenario?

 

Thanks!

Gopi Meka

 

[former_member712493]

Thank you Graziela.

 

Regards,

Monica

 

[JackieN]

Hi Graziela,

Hoping you can assist, after upgrading to the latest HR support pack 85 certain Finance transactions (FB50) are generating runtime errors and no longer post documents successfully.  We've had an open message with SAP since 11/2 with no progress or solution to date. I've requested escalations through the 800 # and our account manager several times but it has not helped.  I'm concerned that we will be unable to move forward with our planned HR support pack upgrade in the live Production system given the instability the updates caused to Finance posting transactions. Would appreciate any guidance or assistance you can provide for us.

Here is the open message we have with SAP.

758210 / 2020 FB50: While posting accounting doc getting error : SQL error "SQL code: 339" occurred while accessing table

Thanks,

Jackie

[former_member671159]

Hi Graziela,

We've noticed that system is not considering the 27th pay period while calculating the Garnishment deduction.

We encountered this issue when the deduction in IT0195 is keyed in as 'Monthly normalised amount'.

eg: Monthly normalised deduction amount of $173.33.

Bi -weekly deduction - 173.33 / 12 * 27 = $77.035.

However, the calculation is based on 26 pay periods, which is $80 bi weekly deduction. It seems the UGARN function is ignoring the 27th pay check.

We're seeing this issue post upgrade to the system and we're currently at HRSP stack level 82.

Thanks

Madhav

[NWL]

2877988

GARN: Monthly normalized over deducting

[graziela]

Hi Jackie,

I don´t have knowledge in FI component. My recommendation to you is to reach out your Support Representative again, and clarify how urgent this is to the Business.

Kind regards,
Graziela

[graziela]

Hello Chandra,

SAP is aware about this.
The requirements are in draft and we are waiting for the publication.

There is already 2 tickets number in BSI side for these changes.

Kind regards,
Graziela

[alicia_robinson]

Graziela -

Do we know an expected release date for these changes since they both start 1/1/2021?

Our first payroll of the year unfortunately runs on 1/1/2021 and we need to know how to handle both of these if they are not available before then.

Thanks,

Alicia

[graziela]

Hello Alicia,

I recommend to you to reach out BSI for further details about this.
They already the tickets opened about this.

Thank you,
Graziela

[alicia_robinson]

Thanks for the quick reply!!

I will contact them today.

[former_member66268]

Thanks graziela.dondoni  for the update. I'm little confused on your statement relating to the requirements are in draft and awaiting publication. Are you referring to the actual local requirements relating to these taxes? I thought these two (CT PFML and Eugene, OR taxes) are all signed into law and published. Is that not the case?

Thanks

Chandra

[former_member671159]

Thank you Aman!

This note explains the change.

 

Madhav

[graziela]

Hi Chandra,

This is what I heard, in this case, I believe the better way to clarify is with BSI.
I hope that just a new tax type can be created, so just the tax model in SAP side needs to be changed.

Regards,
Graziela

[JackieN]

Hi Graziela,

Appreciate your response, we just confirmed payroll postings are also failing.  Basically any transaction posting to table BSEG is failing.  Unfortunately, we haven received promising attention from our account manager after several email request for prioritization.  SAP has bounced the message across multiple teams and is with development team now but still no answers.

Thanks,

Jackie

[graziela]

Hi Jackie,

You can also call to CIC, the contact number is available on 560499 note.
This team can help to analyse the Business Impact and adjust the case priority if needed.

Regards,
Graziela

[alicia_robinson]

Chandra -

I contacted BSI yesterday and this was the response that I received:

Thank you for your email. BSI is aware of the CT PFML and Eugene OR and this issue is with the Research Group.

You will be provided with the status of your request as soon as it is available.

This doesn't sound like they have even started on the changes, but it is my understanding these are already passed into law by the taxing authorities.  I'm not sure I understand the delay.

Thanks,

Alicia

[graziela]

Hello Alicia,

I will share this with Developer and the information this is already published and not draft.

Thank you,
Graziela

[former_member66268]

Hello jackie.alvarez  - thanks for posting the issue here. I dont think I can help but did you apply only the HR support packs or did you apply all support packs (finance, and other modules). We only applied the HR support pack 85 and but we havnt done any testing for finance transactions till now!

Thanks

Chandra

[JackieN]

Hi Chandra,

We only applied HR support pack 85 and an SAP_UI update which was required.  At first it appears the FI document gets posted since you do get successful message but when you go to display the document it doesn't exist and there is where we are encountering an update termination message.  Hopefully, it's just happening for us:)  We are still waiting a reply from SAP.

Thanks,

Jackie

[Debbie_Moses]

We implemented NW 7.4 SP22 to NW 7.4 SP24, and are now getting a short dump when accessing SPRO  Payroll 3rd Party maintain HR payees for regular remittance. Below is info from the dump. Has anyone else had any issues or recognize this error?

[sukhbir_singh3]

Hello

Check note 2922369 - IMG: Runtime Error for 3PR Cluster Views V_T51RK_1 and V_T51RX

Sukhbir

[graziela]

Hi Jackie,

I did a note search using term BSEG and I found notes:

2983084 BSEG-QSZNR not updated in case of extended withholding tax
2962194 FBL*N optimization of BSEG special field selection
2984437 Source document and FI documents in BKPF and BSEG are missing, but environment documents exist in Accounting

These notes are from FI, I´m not sure if you already have this corrections in your system, but if you don´t this might be helpful.

As I´m not expert, not sure if they are relevant.

Kind regards,
Graziela

[Debbie_Moses]

sukhbir.singh2  that worked perfectly! Thank you so much!

[JackieN]

Thank you Graziela!  The last note looks promising, will share with our Basis team to see if relevant.

[graziela]

Dear community,

Phase II note has been released:
2975038 - Year End 2020 Phase II for U.S. Tax Reporter
SAP Note need to be applied before 2994384 (Prerequisite objects for SAP Note 2975038) and you need to run report NOTE_2994384, before implementing Phase II.

Kind regards,
Graziela

 

[evelyn_barbosa]

Good Morning community:

We have applied Supports Stacks and CLC’s and are currently on

ERP 6.0 SPS 19

HRSP ECC 6.04 EhP4 F5

HRSP ECC 6.07 EHP7 A6

CLC’s SAPK-604 F7

NW 7.40 SPS 22

Has anyone found the following when running Third Party Posting Document program RPURMP00 the spools gives the following:

A section with:

Create Third-Party Remittance Posting Run
Due date change for HR payee on the basis of an accumulator

And a section with:

Create Third-Party Remittance Posting Run
HR payees for direct FI update via RFC

In this section it indicates HR doc reference, HR payee reference, Eval Run, amounts, posting number with a short description indicated in red as “not updated”.  This message is given for a large number of Eval runs going back to 2008 and they are all related to our IRS vendor.

While doing testing I encountered the same thing.  The TP posting documents did get created and I was able to post them but it was not done for an entire payroll run.

If anyone has any feedback and or indication of any potential issues with this it would be  appreciated.

Thanks,

Evelyn Campos

[former_member271521]

Do we have any timeline from SAP/BSI when these will be delivered? they are part of Year Begin so are critical to have timeline ready. We do need SAP note here for T5UTD/T5UTX updates, I don't think they are just tax model changes. we always get note from SAP for new tax types.

also do we expect any Phase-III in December? what changes does it contain?

Thanks

Gayathri

[alicia_robinson]

I have had no other communication from BSI on this after my initial inquiry.  I was hoping they would get something released because my payroll team is pushing for me to create a "custom" code for Eugene, OR that we would just have to go back and change once the SAP/BSI changes are released.

Any updates on release date would be appreciated as this has to come from both BSI and SAP (at least in my opinion).