This document discusses legal structures in Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management. It defines key concepts like legal jurisdictions, authorities, entities, reporting units, payroll statutory units, and legislative data groups. It provides examples of how these concepts relate and can be used to model legal and payroll relationships for an enterprise operating in multiple countries.

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Legal Structure
Oracle Fusion
Human Capital Management

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Legal Structures
Concepts
 Legal Jurisdictions
 Legal Authorities
 Legal Entity / Legal Employer
 Legal Reporting Units / Tax Reporting Units
 Payroll Statutory Unit
 Legislative Data Group

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Legal Structures
Legal Jurisdictions
 Jurisdiction is where a particular piece of legislation applies, perhaps group of countries, country, state, county, or parish.
French Labor Law, Singapore Transactions Tax Law, and US Income Tax Laws are examples of particular legislation that
apply to legal entities operating in different countries' jurisdictions. You can create legal jurisdictions in addition to the
pre-defined ones.
 Types of jurisdictions are: Identifying Jurisdiction, Income Tax Jurisdiction & Transaction Tax Jurisdiction
Identifying Jurisdiction
An identifying jurisdiction is the first jurisdiction you must register with to be allowed to do business in a country. For each legal
entity, select an identifying jurisdiction. If there is more than one jurisdiction that a legal entity needs to register with to commence
business, select one as the identifying jurisdiction. Typically the identifying jurisdiction is the one you use to uniquely identify your
legal entity.
Income Tax Jurisdiction
Income tax jurisdictions impose taxes on your financial income generated by all your entities within their jurisdiction. Create income
tax jurisdictions to properly report and remit income taxes to the legal authority.
Transaction Tax Jurisdiction
Tax jurisdictions and their respective rates are provided with transactions from the suppliers, and require periodic maintenance.
Create transaction tax jurisdictions through Oracle Fusion Tax in a separate business flow, because of the specific needs and
complexities of various taxes. Use transaction tax jurisdiction for legal reporting of sales tax and value added tax.

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Legal Structures
Legal Authorities
 A legal authority is a government or legal body that is charged with powers to make laws, levy and collect fees and taxes, and
remit financial appropriations for a given jurisdiction. There are predefined legal authorities in the application, you can create
your own in addition.
 The Internal Revenue Service is responsible for collecting taxes and the interpretation and enforcement of the Internal
Revenue Code of the United States.
 Legal authority information is printed on your tax reports to meet some countries’ requirements, such as India and Brazil.
 Legal authorities are defined in the Oracle Fusion Legal Entity Configurator.
 Tax authorities are a subset of legal authorities and are defined using the same setup flow.
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Legal authorities are not mandatory in Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management (HCM), but are recommended and are
generally referenced on statutory reports.

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Legal Structures
Legal Entities / Legal Employer
 A legal entity is a recognized party with rights and responsibilities given by legislation
 Define a legal entity for each registered company or other entity recognized in law for which you want to:
record assets, liabilities, and income;
pay transaction taxes;
perform intercompany trading
 The contracting party on any transaction is always the legal entity.
Own the assets of the enterprise (as part of Fixed Assets and General Ledger)
Record sales and pay taxes on those sales (as part of Accounts Receivable)
Make purchases and incur expenses (as part of Payables)
Perform other transactions
 Legal entities can be identified as legal employers and therefore, are available for use in Oracle Fusion Human Capital
Management (HCM) applications.

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Legal Structures
Legal Reporting Units / Tax Reporting Units
 Each of your legal entities has one or more legal reporting units to support local reporting requirements
 Legal reporting units were referred to as establishments in R12 EBS
 When a legal entity is created, a main LRU with the same name gets automatically created
 A legal reporting unit is the lowest level component of a legal structure that requires registrations
 Plan and define your legal reporting units at both the local and national levels if you operate within the
administrative boundaries of a jurisdiction that is more granular than country. For example, in India,
income tax exists at the national level where as professional tax exists at the state level.
 You must register your legal entities and reporting units with legal authorities in the jurisdictions where you
conduct business
 A tax reporting unit is the Oracle Fusion HCM version of the legal reporting unit in Oracle Fusion
Applications.
 Use a tax reporting unit to group workers for the purpose of tax and social insurance reporting

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Legal Structures
Payroll Statutory Units (PSU)
 Legal entities are required to pay payroll tax and social insurance such as social security on your payroll.
 You can register payroll statutory units (PSUs) to pay and report on payroll tax and social insurance on behalf of many of
your legal entities.
 Payroll statutory units enable you to group legal employers so that you can perform statutory calculations at a higher level
 In some cases, a legal employer is also a payroll statutory unit.
 A legal employer can belong to only one payroll statutory unit.
 You associate a legislative data group (LDG) with a payroll statutory unit to provide the correct payroll information for
workers
 When you set up legal entities, you can identify them as legal employers and payroll statutory units, which makes them
available for use in Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management (HCM)

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Legal Structures
Legislative Data Groups (LDG)
 Legislative data groups are a means of partitioning payroll and related data. At least one legislative data group is required
for each country where the enterprise operates.
 Oracle Fusion Payroll is organized by legislative data groups.
 Each LDG marks a legislation in which payroll is processed, and is associated with a legislative code, currency and its own cost key
flexfield structure
 LDG is a boundary that can share the same set up and still comply with the local laws
 Each legislative data group is associated with one or more payroll statutory units
 Each payroll statutory unit can belong to only one legislative data group
 For payroll purposes, it is recommended to have one legislative data group for each country, since you define elements, formulas, and payroll
definitions for a legislative data group. If you have multiple legislative data groups for a country, you will need to define the information again
for each LDG. If you are not using payroll, you may want to use legislative data groups since they are used in extracts and reports.

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Legal Structures
Enterprise
Legislative Data Group
Payroll Statutory Unit
Legal Employer
Tax Reporting Unit
Sun Power
Corp
Sun Power
US
Sun Power
US
Manufacturing US
Materials US
Assembly US
Installation US
Installation US
Sun Power
UK
Sun Power
UK
Installation
UK
Installation
UK
Org Model - Example

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Legal Structures
Org Structures
Fusion Definition
Top organization level for structures, entities and data
Localized payroll data partition
Group of legal employers who are considered a single reporting
group for payroll purposes
A legal entity that employs people
An organization used to group employees for Payroll reporting
Fusion
Enterprise
Legislative Data Group
Payroll Statutory Unit
Legal Employer
Tax Reporting Unit

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Legal Structures
Org Structures
Fusion
Legislative Data Group
Payroll Statutory Unit
Legal Employer
Tax Reporting Unit
E-Business Suite
Business Group
Tax Group
Reporting Organization
Government Reporting
Entity
PeopleSoft
Regulatory Region
Set ID
Common Paymaster
Company
Company

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Legal Structures
Payroll Employment Model - Example
Assignment
Project Manager
Employment Terms
Permanent
Work Relationship
(Manufacturing US)
Assignment
Trainer
Employment Terms
Temporary
Work Relationship
(Installation US)
David Ellis
Assignment
Project Manager
Employment Terms
Permanent
Assignment
Trainer
Employment Terms
Temporary
Payroll Relationship
PSU: Sun Power US
David Ellis
HR Model Payroll Model

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Legal Structures
Payroll Employment Model
 Payroll Relationship
 Highest level for which to accumulate balances
 Elements are typically deduction elements such as tax, pension, social insurance or court orders
 Terms
 Helps to manage multiple assignments
 Elements assigned are typically salary, pension or social insurance elements that vary based on terms
 Assignment
 Elements assigned are typically monetary terms and conditions such as overtime, bonuses, union dues etc

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Legal Structures
Manage Legal Entity HCM Information - Demo

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Legal Structures
Manage Legal Entity HCM Information – Hands On

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