Withholding tax on expense report posting
Withholding tax on expense report posting
An expense above the threshold produces a withholding tax entry on posting, visible in preview posting.
Area: Expense Agent. Status: GA. Developer relevance: medium. Airtime: 3 min across 1 video, demoed.
Status evidence
- Nothing said about status; launch event convention: generally available unless stated otherwise.
Where they talk about it
- What's new in Expense Agent: Calculate WHT for Expenses: 4:29 to 7:37, demo at 4:29 (called "Automatic withholding tax on expense report posting" there)
Quotes
- 4:45 "Why I'm using mileage? because I have in a setup that I need to pay taxations if my mileage payment is above $1,000." - Explains the demo scenario: a $1,000 threshold on mileage triggers the tax.
- 6:52 "So I have base 2,127 and I have amount 425.40." - Gives the concrete result of the demo: the withholding tax entry base and amount.
Prerequisites mentioned
- Withholding tax setup for the employee and the mileage category
- Threshold of 1,000 configured in the demo
Documented features match
- Calculate withholding tax automatically in expense reports - high confidence (llm). Docs say: Public preview, roadmap id 573304. WHT on expense reports
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. The wider product documentation on learn.microsoft.com was searched for this feature on the same date; the feature's data lists an article when one was found.
Tags: expense, withholding-tax, posting, demo
Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.