AU Tax Re-design Solution
Overview
June 2015
Customer
Agenda
1. Project Overview
2. Current vs Future State
3. Solution Overview
4. General Availability
5. Recommended Test Strategy
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Project Overview
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Simplification of Payroll solution by re-designing the Tax engine
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Smooth transition of Payroll solution to new tax solution without
any impact on business
Scope

Re-design and simplify tax calculation functionality for SAP Payroll
solution.

Enhanced Payroll log of tax calculation
Current Solution
Objective
Tax

Increased solution flexibility for adopting the legal changes

Improved solution quality, stability and usability
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Potential for Reduction in operating and maintaining the payroll
solution

Improve product quality and stability
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New Solution
Benefits
New
Tax
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Agenda
1. Project Overview
2. Current vs Future State
3. Solution Overview
4. General Availability
5. Recommended Test Strategy
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Current vs Future State
Current Solution
Future Solution
 Schema based
 Code driven with Functions
 Difficult to maintain
 Table based configuration
 QTAX Schema > 360 lines
 QNTX Schema = 16 lines
 Difficult to Analyse
 Detailed description
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Agenda
1. Project Overview
2. Current vs Future State
3. Solution Overview
4. General Availability
5. Recommended Test Strategy
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Solution overview
Reduced size and
Simplified Solution
Improved Payroll
log
New Country
Level Schema
Subschema
Changes
New Functions,
Tables & Rules
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• Tax Schema reduced from more then 360 line to less than 20
• Detail break down of tax calculation in log
• Q001 replaces Q000
• QPS1 replaces QPS0
• Private Sector – 5 sub schemas changed
• Public Sector – 6 sub schemas changed
• 5 New Payroll functions created
• 5 New System tables create
• 4 New Payroll rules
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Solution Overview – Schema Changes
Private Sector
Standard Solution Changes
Public Sector
Standard Solution Changes
Q000
Q001
QPS0
QPS1
QAL0
QAL1
AULL
ALL1
AUL9
AUL1
QNET
QNT1
AUNT
AUN1
QTAX
QNTX
QTAX
QNTX
QRR0
QRR1
QRR0
QRR1
QARR
QAR1
QARR
QAR1
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Solution Overview – New Tax Schema
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Solution Overview – Improved Payroll Log
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Solution Overview – New Payroll Functions
Function
Description
QNTAX
Australia Tax Calculation
QRETR
Create deltas in retro period and process deltas in current period
QCUMU
Wagetype Cumulation
QGCUM
Gross Cumulation for Taxation
QNAVG
Calculation of averages (Australia)
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Solution Overview – New Tables
Name / View
Description
V_T5QT1
AU Tax - Calculations methods
V_T5QT3
AU Tax – Calculation method adjustment configuration
V_T5QT5
AU Tax – Calculations based on technical wage types
V_T5QT6
AU Tax – Gross formation based on processing classes
V_T5QR0
AU Tax – Retro processing characteristics and BF/CF
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Solution Overview – New Rules
Name / View
Description
QOVR
Taxation Overrides
QOBX
Override Bonus Tax
QTX9
Special Processing for Tax Scale 9
QTX4
Generate Payment & Deduction Wage Types for Main & Additional
Banks
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Functional Changes
New Functionality
• Return to Work payments
Functionality no longer supported
• Cross Financial Year (XFY) Tax refunds
(Table T511K - QREFU)
• Special Processing for Casual employees
(Feature QCASL)
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Agenda
1. Project Overview
2. Current vs Future State
3. Solution Overview
4. General Availability
5. Recommended Test Strategy
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General Availability
1. Australian Tax Redesign is generally available to all
customers on releases ECC 6.00 and above.
Refer to SAP Note 2067981 for details
2. Available from following Support Packages & Patches
Software Component
SAP_HRCAU
Release
Support Pack
600
B3
604
79
608
07
3. New solution is activated using a Business function and
Activation Note which must be applied to customer system.
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Request Activation Note Process
Step
1. Raise an SAP Incident using:
a. Component: PY-AU-TAX
b. Short description:
“AUNTX: AU Tax Solution Activation”
c. Long Text include the following:
“AU Tax Solution Activation required
Expected Production Go-live:
Business Contact Name:
Business Contact Email:
Business Contact Phone:”
Customer
Activity
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2. SAP will respond to the incident with the details of
how to apply the Activation note.
3. Apply the Activation note using SNOTE
4. Close the SAP Incident
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SAP
Activity
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Agenda
1. Project Overview
2. Current vs Future State
3. Solution Overview
4. General Availability
5. Recommended Test Strategy
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Recommended Testing Approach
Tax Re-design
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The Solution Deployment
Customer
System (Dev.)
Objective of parallel payroll test

Migrate New Solution
Customer scenarios will be covered
Retrospective calculation will be performed on
existing Customer payroll data
Recommended two parallel runs
Outcome - Trust on the solution
Customer
System (Test)
Employee Data
Customer
System (Prod)
Parallel
Payroll Run
Customer deploy and test
Compare
Results
Fix from SAP
Success
Customer raise
incident in SMP/OSS
Discrepancies
New Solution Incorrect
Explanation to Business
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Old Solution Incorrect
Leverage
current practice
/ tools for
comparing
results during
parallel payroll
run.
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