Flexible Addresses with the Sales Tax Location Flexfield (Oracle Receivables Help)


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Flexible Addresses with the Sales Tax Location Flexfield

During Receivables setup, you must choose a Location Flexfield Structure in the System Options window. The Sales Tax Location Flexfield, along with several other system options, affect the way tax is calculated for your transactions and the way you enter your customer addresses in Receivables. This section describes the issues you need to consider when implementing flexible addresses with the Sales Tax Location Flexfield. Your choices depend on the type of flexible address formatting you wish to perform as well as your location-based taxing requirements. See: Defining a Sales Tax Location Flexfield Structure.

Implement Flexible Formats For All Addresses

If you wish to use flexible address formats to enter and validate your customer address information and are not required to charge your customers tax based on their shipping address, we recommend that you implement the seeded Sales Tax Location Flexfield structure 'Country - No Validation' and set the Address Validation system option to None. All countries are validated against the values defined in the Maintain Countries and Territories window, so setting the Address Validation system option would have no effect. If necessary, you can use flexible address formats to validate other address segments. See: Address Validation.

Implement Flexible Foreign Addresses

If you use a Sales Tax Location Flexfield for tax calculation or address validation and wish to set up flexible address formats to enter and validate customer addresses in foreign countries, you can use the flexible address features described in this document (the Sales Tax Location Flexfield only applies to customer addresses in your home country).

Implement Flexible Home Addresses

If you use a Sales Tax Location Flexfield that contains a segment other than country and you wish to set up a flexible address format for customers in your home country (defined in the Default Country field of the System Options window), every component in your Sales Tax Location Flexfield structure must also exist in your flexible address style for that country. This is because all components of your Sales Tax Location Flexfield are mandatory during customer address entry.

Additionally, if your Address Validation system option is set to 'Error' or 'Warning,' it is advisable to create value sets on your flexible address segments which return the same lists of locations as the value sets on your Sales Tax Location Flexfield. You cannot use the same value sets because the Sales Tax Location Flexfield value sets return location identifiers and the flexible address descriptive flexfields require you to return a location name. Also, if the Sales Tax Location Flexfield has multiple segments, you should set up the same parent-child validation on your new value sets as exists on the Sales Tax Location Flexfield value sets. For details about the Sales Tax Location Flexfield value sets, see: Defining a Sales Tax Location Flexfield.

Flexible Addresses with the Sales Tax Location Flexfield

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