Fiscal Positions In Odoo 13

Accounting in Businesses is the systematic recording, analyzing, interpreting and presenting financial information. Accounting is the way a business keeps track of its operations. Here you can read about 'How you can apply Fiscal Position in Odoo 13 Accounting'. 

In Odoo, the accounting process keeps track of all the transactions made through the system. This information can then be printed as reports as well.

The default tax to be applied to a product in Odoo is set in the product’s form. These taxes are then used in Sales & Accounting while creating Orders & Invoices.

But there are some exceptions related to taxes & accounting to be applied to the customers of a particular country or based on the status or locations of the customers.

In Odoo, the concept to apply the right taxes for the customer is handled using Fiscal Positions. The default tax for a customer can be replaced by another one based on the specific fiscal position of the customer.

For example, say, a company in Austria applies 15% taxes on its products but wants to apply 5% taxes for a citizen of Austria. This can be done using Fiscal Positions in Odoo.

Also Read: Manage Accounting with Odoo

In this blog, we’ll see how to apply Fiscal Positions in Odoo Accounting.

1) First of all, we’ll create a fiscal position. Fiscal Positions can be created in the Configuration menu of the Accounting.

Activate the developer mode, then navigate to the admin user or whichever user you are logged in with. Here, enable the ‘Show Full Accounting Features’.

Name the fiscal position whatever you want. In this case, we’ll create a fiscal position with the name ‘Austria’.

If you want the system to automatically detect this fiscal position, enable ‘Detect Automatically’. After that, you’ll see an option to apply this fiscal position for a specific country or a country group. Say, we want to apply this fiscal position for the customers that belong to ‘Austria’, Select the country ‘Austria’. This will automatically detect the fiscal positions for the customers of Austria.

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Next, we’ll create entries for the taxes to be replaced using this Fiscal Position. We need to mention all the taxes that we want to replace here. Now our Fiscal Position is created.