Norway: SAF-T - transactions grouping level by "Voucher" must be reported on “Transaction” element level instead of "Journal"

Introduction

Starting from January 2020 all the companies in Norway are obliged to provide by request of Norwegian Tax Administration Standard Audit File for Taxes Financial data (SAF-T).

The documentation about setting up and usage Dynamics 365 Finance for SAF-T reporting in Norway is published on https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/finance/localizations/emea-nor-satndard-audit-file-for-tax.

Overview

Current hotfix introduces following changes in the “SAF-T Format (NO)” format to comply legal requirement on the data representation:

1. One level of grouping of general journal account entries – by Voucher.

2. This level of grouping is reported on “Transaction” element level in SAF-T.

3. “Journal” level of SAF-T is always represented with one single journal

4. • JournalID = “A”

   • Description = "Common assorted journal for all general ledger accounting transactions"

   • Type = “A”

5. <NumberOfEntries> element is described as “Number of entries. This is the total number of Transaction entries (accounting documents/vouchers) from all Journals included in the audit file.” – reports the total number of vouchers in the report.

6. <TransactionID> element is described as “The number/ID of the accounting document/voucher.” – reports Voucher as it is with no date and time.
   
   Current hotfix is available in following or higher versions of the Finance application:

When your Finance application is of sufficient version, import and use following or later versions of the Electronic reporting configuration:

- SAF-T Format (NO).version.65.91

For more information about how to download ER configurations from Global repository of Configuration service, see Download ER configurations from the Global repository of Configuration service.

After you've finished importing ER configurations, check that the Default for model mapping option is set to Yes for the SAF-T Financial data model mapping configuration.

More information

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