QAD 2017 Enterprise Edition > User Guides > System Administration > Customizing Specific Business Components > Customizing the Validation of Tax IDs > Errors and Warnings
  
Errors and Warnings
The Financials code denotes the type of message (Error or Warning) to raise if the tax ID entered by a user fails to validate. This message type is treated as the default by the tax ID customization method, ValidateFormatTaxID. However, you can override the default message type using non-intrusive customization.
For example, if the default value is that the system generates an Error message type if the tax ID fails to validate, you can change the message type to Warning using the customization method, even though Error is the default