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How to make taxes work in business central API?

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I don't understand how to make functioning tax areas with the Microsoft Dynamics Business Central API. I can create tax areas and associate them with customers, but they have no affect on sales order line items. Even though they will appear with the actual order line item. I think the reason is they don't have any associated tax jurisdiction entities. Because when one makes a tax area in the actual Business Central GUI, the tool demands that you also add at least one tax jurisdiction to said tax area for it to function. But I can't associate (or I don't understand how) a tax jurisdiction with a tax area with the API. But before I even talk about associating a tax jurisdiction I have to figure out how to create a tax jurisdiction. Does anyone know how to get the taxes to work with the API for Business Central? Any pointers? It seems to me I have to enter specific tax areas because there is no way of directly inputting the tax amounts/percentages using the API, tax amounts are read only. I haven't been able to find a whole lot on this otherwise I wouldn't ask.

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    Andy Sather Profile Picture
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    Hello Jack,

    If you don't get further responses to this issue, you may want to raise a support request to Microsoft support.

  • Alldayrr Profile Picture
    10 on at

    Were you able to figure this out? I’m in same boat

  • SteveMet Profile Picture
    15 on at

    Have you found a way to make it work ?

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