Norway Standard Audit File for Tax (SAF-T) Financial in Accounts with SuiteTax

The Norway SAF-T is a standard file format for exporting various types of accounting and tax data in XML format. The report structure is based on the SAF-T standard format by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Norway Standard Audit File for Tax (SAF-T) Financial is supported both in accounts with and without SuiteTax.

Norway SAF-T financial report is comprised of three main sections:

Section	Description
Header	General information about the company and audit file
Files	Information about general ledger account, suppliers, customers, and tax table
General Ledger Entries	Accounting transactions

Section

Description

Header

General information about the company and audit file

Files

Information about general ledger account, suppliers, customers, and tax table

General Ledger Entries

Accounting transactions

The Norwegian tax administration, Skatteetaten, lists the primary purposes of the Norway SAF-T Financial data to serve as the following:

An export format for accounting data after request from the Norwegian Tax Administration, public accountants and other parties.
An archiving format for the necessary accounting data for those who are obliged to keep accounts as stated in the Norwegian bookkeeping legislation.
Format for moving data when changing accounting software.
Format for moving data from accounting software to other financial systems such as year-end closing systems, tax computation systems, business intelligence software, advisory systems, and so on.

Known limitations in Accounts with SuiteTax

Norway Standard Audit File for Tax (SAF-T) is supported in OneWorld accounts only. For more information, see Introduction to NetSuite OneWorld.

Norway Standard Audit File for Tax (SAF-T) is supported in the following languages:

English
Norwegian

The Norway SAF-T Report supports only one distinct Tax Code per transaction item or expense line.

The following tax configurations are not supported:

NetSuite Tax Groups applied to transaction lines.
Partially deductible VAT configured through Tax Groups or multiple component Tax Codes.
Multiple Tax Codes applied to the same item or expense line.
Compound, multi-tax, or other configurations that result in more than one distinct Tax Code on a source transaction line.

For supported transactions, apply one standalone Tax Code per item or expense line.

A Tax Code that is a component of a Tax Group can still be used standalone. It is supported when it is the only distinct Tax Code applied to the transaction line. Applying the Tax Group itself, or otherwise applying multiple Tax Codes to the same line, isn't supported.

Reports may contain incorrect results for transaction lines with multiple distinct Tax Codes, which may result in the following behavior:

The original GL line remains in the report.
The complete TaxInformation element is omitted.
The affected usage does not create a Reporting Tax Code in TaxTable.
Independently mapped or otherwise qualifying Reporting Tax Codes are unaffected.
Report generation continues without displaying an error message.

The following additional limitations also apply:

Norway SAF-T doesn't validate whether a supported Tax Transaction Type or Item Tax Item Type is semantically correct. Empty or unrecognized Tax Transaction Type values are handled without an error.
Norway SAF-T doesn't validate UMA mappings or manually overridden Tax Detail values.
Direct Expense lines are always processed through the Services reporting branch.
Tax Code names must not exceed 63 characters.
For fields that allow more characters than the corresponding simple types in the official Skatteetaten specifications, values are shortened to fit the specified limit.

General Notices