Business Place – SAP Documentation

Use

The business place is used in countries that by law require returns for taxes on sales/purchases to be submitted at a level below the company code. For this reason, companies have to register each business place with the tax authorities as the unit responsible for tax reporting.

In some countries, the business place is also used to assign
official document numbers
to outgoing documents and so it is the level at which these documents are issued. In most cases, these documents are concerned with value-added tax (VAT) or similar tax types.

You can also use the business place for the
payment program
, whereby you can make separate payments per business place, and separate house banks can be filtered per business place. This function is currently available for Brazil , South Korea , and
Thailand
.

SAP supports business place functions for the following
countries
; how it is used varies according to the country in which it is employed:

You can
activate
the business place for other countries, but note that SAP does not support its usage.