Tax Heads

Introduction

Tax is levied by the government in certain brackets, i.e there are certain components of a tax which sum up and make the final trans-actionable amount. For example, a property tax could have swatch-ta tax, fire cess and certain other components which sum up and make a final amount.

Data Table

Sr. No.	Code*	Service*	Category*	Name*	Is Debit*	Is Actual Demand*	Order*
1	PT_UNIT_PENALTY	PT	Penalty	PT Penalty	FALSE	FALSE	1
2	PT_UNIT_EXEMPTION	PT	Exemption	PT Exemption	TRUE	TRUE	2

Data given in the table is sample data for reference.

Procedure

Data Definition

Sr. No.	Column Name	Data Type	Data Size	Is Mandatory?	Description
1.	Code	Alphanumeric	64	Yes	The code for the tax that is being levied
2.	Service	Text	256	Yes	This is the module or the name of the service for which the tax head is being mentioned
3.	Category	Text	256	Yes	The category to which the tax head belongs such as Penalty or exemption or cess
4.	Name	Text	256	Yes	This is the name/description of the tax head
5.	Is Debit	Text	NA	Yes	In case the tax head is an amount that needs to be added up to the property tax, then this needs to be TRUE else FALSE
6.	Is Actual Demand	Text	NA	Yes	In case the tax head is an amount that needs to be subtracted from the property tax, then this needs to be TRUE else FALSE
7	Order	Integer	5	Yes	The order in which the mentioned tax head should appear on the screen

Steps to fill data

1. Download the data template attached to this page.

2. Get a good understanding of all the headers in the template sheet, their data type, size, and definitions by referring to the ‘Data Definition’ section of this document.

3. In case of any doubt, please reach out to the person who has shared this template with you to discuss and clear your doubts.

4. Get all the tax heads for a particular module and then proceed to the next module.

5. Verify the data once again by going through the checklist and making sure that each and every point mentioned in the checklist is covered.

Checklist

The checklist is a set of activities to be performed on the data is filled into a template to ensure data type, size, and format of data is as per the expectation. These activities have been divided into 2 groups as given below.

Common Checklist

This checklist covers all the activities which are common across the entities.

Sr. No.	Checklist Parameter	Example
1	Make sure that each and every point in this reference list has been taken care of	Checklist

Entity Specific Checklist

Not Applicable

Attachments

10KB

configurable-data-template-tax-heads-v1.xlsx

Configuration Data Template

14KB

configurable-sample-data-tax-heads-v1.xlsx

Sample Data

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