5.14 Refunding Withheld Tax

Oracle Banking Corporate Lending enables you to refund the withheld tax amount when there is fluctuation in the interest rate, or change in the tax status. The tax administrators review the previous tax withholdings of all participants and select those withholdings that need to be refunded. System calculates and refunds the total amount to the participants through wire transfer.

Tax is refunded to the participants using the Tax Refund screen.

Specify the User ID and Password, and login to Homepage.

1. On the homepage, type LBDTXREF and click next arrow.
   The Tax Refund screen is displayed.

   Note:

   The fields which are marked in asterisk red are mandatory fields.

   Figure 5-69 Tax Refund

   
   

   
   Description of "Figure 5-69 Tax Refund"

   
   
2. In the above screen, system displays all the withheld tax components. The following details are displayed.

   Table 5-21 Tax components

   Fields	Description
   Borrower Ref No.	Specify the reference number of the borrower contract for which you want to refund the tax.
   Participant	From the option list select the participant for whom you want to refund the tax.
   Participant Ref No.	System displays the reference number of the participant.
   Tax Rule	System displays the tax rule associated with the contract.
   Component	System displays the component against which the tax rule is associated.
   Ccy	This is the currency in which the Tax that has been withheld which needs to be remitted.
   Refund Amount	This is the sum of all the Refund Amount specified under Schedule Details.

   System displays the schedule details of the components:

   Table 5-22 Schedules Details of Components

   Fields	Description
   Tax Rule	This is defaulted from the Tax Rule under Component Details.
   Tax Due Date	System displays the due date of the component with which the tax rule is associated.
   Tax Collection Date	This is the date on which the component was liquidated.
   Amount	This is the maximum tax amount that can be considered for the refund for a Tax rule, Due Date and collection date combinations for the given participant of an LB contract. System calculates this amount considering the impact of the past refunds and the remittances.
   Refund Amount	You can specify the amount you wish to refund to the participant. You can choose to refund the tax withholdings in partial or full. The amount in the Amount field is defaulted here. You can, however, change the amount. If you specify zero, it indicates that you do not want to refund any amount.

   Click Settlements tab in the Tax Refund screen to invoke the Settlement screen. This screen displays the customer’s account where the refund amount is credited.

   Click Events tab to invoke the Event screen. This screen displays the accounting entries posted with TXRF (Tax Refund) and TXRV (Reversal of refund) events.

   Click Media Priority button to invoke the Media for Message Generation screen. You can specify the media for the message generation in this screen. This buttonis enabled only if the FpML Type option is deselected at the contract level and the Media Priority option is selected at the product level.

   If this button is enabled, then the system displays an override message saying to view the Media for Message Generation screen. If not, the system handoffs the message as per the details maintained in the Customer Entity Maintenance screen.

   For more information on Settlement Message Details screen, refer the Settlements User Manual.

   For more details on the Event Log Details screen, refer the section titled Viewing events for the facility in the Loan Syndication Contracts chapter of this User Manual.

   For more information on the Media for Message Generation screen, refer the section Specifying Media for Message Generation of this chapter.

   You can execute the following operations in the Tax Refund screen:

   • Create
   • Reverse
   • Authorize
   • Delete

   Note:

   • You can refund the amount even after a contract is liquidated.
   • You can refund the amount only for components that have not been remitted.
   • You can reverse the refund, if required.
   • System does not refund the amount if the underlying contract for which refund is being made is not authorized.
   • You cannot execute a transaction if the refund is unauthorized.
   This topic contains the following sub-topics:

• Forward Processing for Investor Tax Refund Payments
  
• Viewing separate fee liquidation entries in Forward Processing Browser