Merge RCS into Finance as Globalization Studio
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
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| Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | 
Apr 1, 2024 |
Business value
Globalization stakeholders will have a seamless experience in Dynamics 365 Finance for extending and customizing key globalization areas of tax, e-invoicing, regulatory reporting, banking, and business documents. It was previously available as a separate service—Regulatory Configuration Service—and now will be under the Globalization Studio workspace.
Feature details
This feature simplifies the experience of extending and customizing key globalization areas of tax, e-invoicing, regulatory reporting, banking, and business documents. Regulatory Configuration Service (RCS) will be deprecated. With the release of this feature, all new RCS provisioning is stopped. If provisioning is required, register a support ticket. We will be working with partners and customers on migrating existing RCS instances. We plan to fully shut down RCS by August 1, 2024.
The application lifecycle management (ALM) part of RCS and Electronic Reporting (ER), currently leveraging the Global repository, will be done via Dataverse solutions. A new type of repository for getting ER configurations in Dynamics 365 Finance is added: Dataverse configuration repository. With this, the Global repository will be deprecated.
The e-invoicing service design experience will use the Globalization Studio workspace and will align with the overall RCS merge timeline.
Tax calculation service: With the RCS merge into Dynamics 365 Finance, Tax calculation service (TCS) will also be seamlessly incorporated into the Globalization Studio workspace. With this change, installing the TCS add-in is no longer a mandatory step for new environments. In addition, the constraint to have a Tier-2 environment will no longer apply.
Migration of Tax calculation features and configurations: Migration of tax calculation features that were created in RCS and are being used in Dynamics 365 Finance legal entities in Tax calculation parameters will be provided via a background job processing. The process runs automatically after the Enable Globalization feature setup for Tax Calculation Service feature in Feature management is enabled. In the new workspace for Globalization Studio, under the Globalization services, the Tax calculation tile will be available to create and maintain tax features in Dynamics 365 Finance. After the batch job is completed, you'll be able to see and update your features migrated from RCS and used in legal entities. Also, you will be able to restore additional feature versions migrated from RCS.
Tax calculation configurations will be available in the Globalization Studio workspace > Electronic reporting, under the Tax configurations tile.
User experience: It's important to note that the user experience (UI) for configuring tax features remains consistent and unaffected by this release.
Timeline: We will be enabling TCS in all environments. The activities related to discontinuation of TCS as an add-in will align with the timeline set for RCS.
See also
Regulatory Configuration Service merge to the Globalization Studio workspace (docs)