Tax clauses are used to provide descriptive information about the tax that is being reported on a sales document. The tax clause information is displayed on a printed document alongside the tax identifier or tax rate.

For example, you may have specified that the tax identifier associated with a sales line is a certain type of tax. You can then create a tax clause that displays information about the tax. You set up a tax clause in the Tax Clauses window. You can also provide translated tax clause descriptions in the report. The translated text will be based on the language code of the customer. You set up the translations in the Tax Clause Translations window.

By default, when you specify a tax posting group on a sales document, the tax clause that has been associated with the tax posting group is automatically used and copied to the sales line. If you change the Tax Product Posting group or the Tax Business Posting group on a sales line, then the tax clause will be updated automatically to reflect the tax clause code that is associated with the new group.

You can modify or delete a tax clause, and your modifications will be reflected in a generated report. However, Microsoft Dynamics NAV does not keep a history of the change. On the report, the tax clause descriptions are printed and displayed for all lines in the report alongside the tax amount and the tax base amount. If a tax clause has not been defined for any lines on the sales document, then the whole section is omitted when the report is printed.

The following reports support the display of tax clauses:

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