Business Central 2024 wave 2 (BC25): Use multiple VAT/TAX numbers for a customer (Alternative Customer VAT Registration)

Hi, Readers.
The public preview for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 release wave 2 (BC25) is available. Learn more: Link.

I will continue to test and share some new features that I hope will be helpful.

Use multiple VAT numbers for a customer:

Business value:
Customers who have warehouses in multiple EU countries have a different VAT number for each country. Business Central makes it easy to accommodate that situation. You can configure alternative VAT numbers and posting groups for customers’ warehouses in different countries, so when you use ship-to addresses on your sales documents for different countries, Business Central will automatically apply the correct VAT number and corresponding posting groups.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/release-plan/2024wave2/smb/dynamics365-business-central/multiple-vat-numbers-per-customers?wt.mc_id=DX-MVP-5004336

It is important that the VAT registration numbers you have for customers, vendors, and contacts are valid, if you use Business Central in a country/region that uses VAT. For example, on the Customer Card:

The European Commission provides the VIES VAT Number Validation service on its website, which is public and free. Business Central can save you a step and let you use the VIES service to validate and track VAT numbers and other company information for customers, vendors, and contacts. The service in Business Central is named EU VAT Reg. No. Validation Service. The service is available on the Service Connections page, and you can start using it right away. The service connection is free, and additional sign up is not required.

PS: You must specify the EU Country/Region Code for the country that issued the VAT registration number. You can specify that on the Country/Regions page.

But until now, we have only been able to set one VAT registration number on the Customer Card. Customers with warehouses in different EU countries must register a new VAT number in each country, which means they have more than one VAT number. This issue is finally resolved in Business Central 2024 wave 2 (BC25). Let’s see more details.

On the Customer Card page, Microsoft has added a new action, Alternative VAT Registration.

Alternative VAT Registration
View or set up an alternative VAT registration number for the customer.

PS: This page is searchable, so it can also be opened via Tell Me.

You can add the VAT Number, the VAT Business Posting Group, and the General Business Posting Group for a customer if the address has a different Country/Region Code.

As mentioned in Business value, this is linked with the Country/Region Code in the Ship-to Addresses.

LONDON: IT (Contry/Region Code)

PS: When you create a new alternative address for your customer and the Country/Region Code is different than the customer’s setup, Business Central checks whether a different VAT Number already exists. If the number doesn’t exist, it notifies you to create new one.

The country for the address is different than the customer’s. Do you want to add an alternative VAT registration for the customer?

When you want to send goods to another address and you select an Alternate Ship-to Address, Business Central shows the appropriate VAT number. You also have the option to use different posting groups, such as the one I just set up.

Confirm Alternative Customer VAT Registration: Choose OK.

Test video:

Of course, when you change Ship-to to Default, the VAT related information will also be restored.

This feature is available on the following sales documents:

Sales invoices
Sales orders
Sales credit memos
Sales return orders

Great improvement. Give it a try!!!😁

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Hope this will help.

Thanks for reading.

ZHU