Understanding the Electronic GIA Workbench for Brazil
Guia de Informação e Apuração (GIA) is the ICMS Assessment and Information form. Taxpayers use the GIA to report their economic activities, such as the selling and purchasing of goods within a state and between states. The GIA provides a record of the ICMS tax that is due to the state government. The GIA is sent to the tax authorities of the state government in an electronic flat file in a format that is specified by the state.
You obtain the data for the GIA flat files by running the Nota Fiscal Conversion program (R76B200A). The Nota Fiscal Conversion program reads the Nota Fiscal Header - Brazil table (F7601B) and the Nota Fiscal Detail - Brazil table (F7611B), and populates the Nota Fiscal - Header (Fiscal Books) table (F76101B) and the Nota Fiscal - Detail (Fiscal Books) table (F76111B). You then run the Extract GIA program (R76B130). The Extract GIA program reads the data in tables F76101B and F76111B, and populates the F76B130 table and the F76B131 table. You can then use the Electronic GIA Workbench program (P76B130) to maintain the records in tables F76B130 and F76B131. The Electronic GIA Workbench program also enables you to manually add records for transactions that do not exist in tables F7601B and F7611B. After you make any needed modifications, you generate the flat files that you send to the state government.