How To Fix FOT_TXA013 - RITA is inactive. The tax country must not be filled.

FOT_TXA013 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: FOT_TXA - Tax abroad messages

• Message number: 013

• Message text: RITA is inactive. The tax country must not be filled.

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FOT_TXA013 - Details

• The SAP error message FOT_TXA013 indicates that the tax country is filled in a context where it should not be. Specifically, the message states that "RITA is inactive," which suggests that the system is trying to process a tax-related transaction or configuration where the tax country is not applicable or should not be specified.
  
  Cause:
  
  Inactive Tax Configuration: The tax configuration for the specified country (RITA) is inactive. This could be due to the tax type not being set up correctly or the tax area not being activated.
  Incorrect Master Data: The master data (such as vendor or customer records) may have incorrect or unnecessary entries for the tax country field.
  Transaction Context: The transaction being processed may not require a tax country, but one has been entered, leading to the error.
  
  
  Solution:
  
  
  Check Tax Configuration:
  
  Go to the transaction code OBYZ (for tax configuration) and verify if the tax type for the country in question is