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title: "Duties"
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The application provides the ability to fully monitor the duties charged on items imported from countries outside the European Union. Specifically:

- The management of duty classes is performed through the similarly named table in Inventory Set up. For each duty class, set the country and percentage on the basis of which duty value shall be calculated.
- The duty class of each item is defined in the purchase data of the item, in the respective parameter

 

During purchase document posting, the application checks:

- The Duty class of the item in <Accounting> tab.

- The supplier Country, which must be outside European Union, in <Communication> tab.

 

In case the Duty class Country of the item and the Supplier country are the same, then it calculates the nominal value and nominal VAT (per document line) on the basis of the Duty class rate.

The nominal value is defined to be the sum of the purchase document value and the duty value, as calculated automatically on the basis of the item duty class rate.

 

**Duties & Surcharges**

The nominal value of each document line can be used as the basis for the allocation of the surcharges value to the items imported from Third Countries. The same functionality is also available for the allocation of expenses (cost items) in the imports - exports costing folders, in expenses' cost categories.