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Tax codes, SST and what LHDN actually sees · presentation 3 of 5

Tax Applicable is the switch, and most items have it off

You can say what the item's Tax Applicable tick controls, why an item can show a tax code that never applies…

One tick, four triples

Step 1 — Find the tick that gates everything else

You will know what you are actually looking at on the item's Tax tab.

Screen capture pending the demo tenant

Doc Item Maintenance, an item open on its Tax tab, showing the Tax Applicable tick above the four triples

Step 2 — Weigh how many items have it off

You will know this is the normal state rather than an oversight.

What this step names
  1. Across every tenant on the platform
  2. Most active items have the tick off — roughly seven hundred thousand…
  3. Against about four hundred
  4. Thirty thousand with it on

Step 3 — Spot the item that shows a code it will never use

You will know a specific trap.

Where this step sits
    flowchart TD
  s1["1. Find the tick that gates everything…"]
  s2["2. Weigh how many items have it…"]
  s3["3. Spot the item that shows a…"]
  s4["4. Learn which documents take the item's…"]
  s5["5. Notice what the drop-down will and…"]
  s6["6. Connect the tick to what the…"]
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  s3 --> s4
  s4 --> s5
  s5 --> s6
  classDef here fill:#1e40af,stroke:#1e40af,color:#ffffff,font-weight:bold;
  class s3 here;

Sales, purchase, and neither

Step 4 — Learn which documents take the item's tax at all

You will stop expecting tax defaults everywhere.

Where this step sits
    flowchart TD
  s1["1. Find the tick that gates everything…"]
  s2["2. Weigh how many items have it…"]
  s3["3. Spot the item that shows a…"]
  s4["4. Learn which documents take the item's…"]
  s5["5. Notice what the drop-down will and…"]
  s6["6. Connect the tick to what the…"]
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  s2 --> s3
  s3 --> s4
  s4 --> s5
  s5 --> s6
  classDef here fill:#1e40af,stroke:#1e40af,color:#ffffff,font-weight:bold;
  class s4 here;

Step 5 — Notice what the drop-down will and will not offer

You will know why a code you created does not appear.

Where this step sits
    flowchart TD
  s1["1. Find the tick that gates everything…"]
  s2["2. Weigh how many items have it…"]
  s3["3. Spot the item that shows a…"]
  s4["4. Learn which documents take the item's…"]
  s5["5. Notice what the drop-down will and…"]
  s6["6. Connect the tick to what the…"]
  s1 --> s2
  s2 --> s3
  s3 --> s4
  s4 --> s5
  s5 --> s6
  classDef here fill:#1e40af,stroke:#1e40af,color:#ffffff,font-weight:bold;
  class s5 here;

Why this reaches LHDN

Step 6 — Connect the tick to what the regulator is told

You will see why a screen about stock affects a tax filing.

What this step names
  1. Before any of it can post
  2. The company's default output and input tax account links must exist with…
  3. The tax line is dropped and the document fails to balance

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