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Get your items ready for e-invoice · presentation 1 of 5

Nothing is rejected for a blank classification

You can say what actually happens to an e-invoice line whose item has no LHDN classification…

What the E-Invoice tab is for

Step 1 — Put the three fields in their place

You will know what you are actually setting.

Screen capture pending the demo tenant

Doc Item Maintenance, an item open on its E-Invoice tab, showing classification, taxable type and e-invoice UOM

Step 2 — Learn what a blank one becomes

You will stop waiting for a rejection.

What this step names
  1. The line is complete
  2. The document is accepted
  3. The only thing wrong with it is that it describes something you…

The check that runs too late

Step 3 — See why the check that would have caught it cannot

You will understand a piece of machinery that misleads almost everybody.

Where this step sits
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  s3["3. See why the check that would…"]
  s4["4. Weigh how much of the base…"]
  s5["5. Recognise the pre-fill for what it…"]
  s6["6. Decide what this costs you…"]
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  class s3 here;

Step 4 — Weigh how much of the base this touches

You will know this is normal rather than exotic.

What this step names
  1. Across every tenant on the platform
  2. Roughly one active item in six has no classification at all —…
  3. Spread across most tenants that hold items
  4. Against nine hundred
  5. Fifty thousand that do carry one

Step 5 — Recognise the pre-fill for what it is

You will stop trusting a filled-in field.

  • Open the E-Invoice tab on an item whose classification is empty and the tab…
Screen capture pending the demo tenant

The E-Invoice tab on a newly created item, classification already showing 022 Others

What to do about it

Step 6 — Decide what this costs you, and act on it

You will know why this is worth a morning.

What this step names
  1. An accepted e-invoice saying that twenty-two thousand ringgit of laptops were Others
  2. Sold in pieces
  3. Is a statement you did not intend to make
  4. Did not know you had made

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