Belgium local functionality

Tax Reporting

The excise declaration to the Belgium government can be done:

• Manually, on the PLDA portal
• Use a Tax Statement Template to calculate your tax settlements for a certain period.
• Automatically by the e-AC4 webservice.

Setting Up e-AC4

If you choose to do your excise declarations with the AC4 webservice, there are some things to setup before you can start using it:

1. Select the Search icon , enter Tax Management Setup, and then choose the related link.

2. On the Tax Management Setup card, select your Tax Office and the Tax Responsible Contact.

3. Choose the Country Specific Setup action.

4. On the BE Tax Setup FastTab of the TAX Country Specific Setup page, select the Enable BE AC4 field. This action fills in default values for other fields on the page. Verify them and change as necessary.

5. Fill in other fields as necessary on both the BE Tax Setup and the Consignee Identification FastTabs.

6. Choose the Tax Classifications Action.

7. On the General Tax Classifications page, select the AC4 field for codes as necessary. Use the Set AC4 and ClearAC4 action to do all codes with one action. Close the page when you are finished.

8. On the TAX Country Specific Setup page, now choose the AC4 Calculation Types action.

9. On the AC4 Calculation Types page, define your Taxable Base setup for the codes that are applicable for your company, where volumes and strengths (primary or secondary) depend to your Aptean Beverage Foundation Setup:

   Calculation Code	Description	Taxable Base
   100	Liter pure alcohol	Vol.(1or2)-Strength(1or2)
   101	Hectoliter pure alcohol at 20°C	Vol.(1or2)-Strength(1or2)
   102	1.000 liter at 15°C
   104	Hectoliter Degrees Plato	Vol.(1or2)-Strength(1or2)
   HLT	Hectoliter	Volume (1or2)
   MWH	1.000 kilowatt-hour

10. Select the icon, enter Units of Measure, and then choose the related link.

11. On the Units of Measure page, fill in AC4 Packaging Codes according to the CodeTablePackageType.

12. Select the icon, enter Customs Document Mgt. Connector Setup, and then choose the related link.

13. Choose the Country/Region URL Setup action

14. On the Customs Document Mgt. URL List add a new line for the AC4 Message Type and Country/Region Code BE.

15. The URL for the TEST environment of the Belgian government is https://ccff-test1.minfin.be:1443/PLDAWebservice/b2b and PRODUCTION environment is https://ccff02.minfin.fgov.be:1443/PLDAWebservice/b2b

Sending and Receiving e-AC4 Messages

1. Select the icon, enter BE AC4 Declaration, and then choose the related link.
2. On the BE AC4 Declaration page, fill in fields as necessary. Hover over a field to read a short description.
3. Verify that your Sending Date is today. Only messages with today’s date will be accepted by the government.
4. Select the Update Tax Document No.1 field to update the Tax Ledger Entries that are included in this declaration. It represents the Local Reference Number of the declaration.
5. Select Send to send the message automatically to the government.
6. Choose the OK button.

AC4 messages that where sent and received are registered in the Customs Document Mgt. Mail History List:

• Sent: Submission Message Type = AC4
• Received: Submission Message Type = AC4 Status

7. Select the icon, enter Customs Document Mgt. Mail History, and then choose the related link.
8. Select the AC4 entry where you want to receive the AC4 Status.
9. Verify the Status of the entry. If any Error Message was found, solve them and start the declaration process again. When the Status of your message is Success, continue with the next step.
10. Choose the Send BE AC4 Status Request action.
11. On the Send BE AC4 Status Request page, choose the OK button.
12. A new entry of the message type AC4 Status is created. Verify the Status of this entry. If any Error Message was found, solve them and start the declaration process again. When the Status of your message is Success, the declaration process is finished.