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BC 2026 release wave 2unofficial launch event map, by waldo

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Withholding at invoice or payment

GA · 1 min in 1 video · dev relevance low · documented as Calculate withholding tax automatically in expense reports medium match

Withholding at invoice or payment

Withholding is calculated on expense report posting or on payment, staying unrealized until paid.

Area: Expense Agent. Status: GA. Developer relevance: low. Airtime: 1 min across 1 video, demoed.

Status evidence

  • Nothing said about status; launch event convention: generally available unless stated otherwise.

Where they talk about it

Quotes

  • 7:54 "So everything above uh 1,000 will be taxable withholding tax in 20%." - Describes how the threshold and the 20% rate work in the demo setup.
  • 8:17 "So it will be unrealized until I'm paid." - Explains the behavior when calculation is set to payments instead of invoice.

Documented features match

  • Calculate withholding tax automatically in expense reports - medium confidence (llm). Docs say: Public preview, roadmap id 573304. WHT on expenses
  • Product documentation: Set up withholding tax, checked 2026-10-02. Realized Withholding Type: Specifies when to realize the withholding tax for the transaction. You can realize the withholding when you post the invoice, post the payment, or at the earliest of the two. Note: General WHT setup article, not specific to expense reports; employee transactions are in finance-withholding-tax-employees.

Docs checked on 2026-10-02: the match is against Microsoft's what's new pages for the wave as they were on that date. Microsoft keeps filling the documentation, so "no documented item" can go stale.

Tags: expense, withholding-tax, posting, setup

Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.