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Tracking different sales tax rates and jurisdictions |
| KB ID#: |
1582 |
| Categories: |
General Issues, Quicken Home & Business |
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| Answer: |
Quicken Home & Business automatically calculates a single sales tax rate for each invoice. However, if there are items on a single invoice that require multiple taxes, they will have to be calculated manually. To set up invoicing for manual tax calculating, follow this procedure as it fits your needs:
- Establish a new liability account for each tax rate or jurisdiction to which sales taxes will be collected.
- Create a new invoice in your Invoice account.
- In the Template field (upper right corner) click <New>. This opens a New Template window.
- In the New Template window, clear the checkmark in the Use Sales Tax box.
- Give this new invoice template an appropriate name, and make other changes to suit your business needs and preferences. Click OK.
- In the New Invoice window you have created, there will be no column for taxable items and there will be no subtotal of tax fields at the bottom.
To enter items taxed at multiple rates or for different jurisdictions, use this procedure:
- After completing your normal business entries on the invoice, select one of the liability accounts you created for the applicable sales tax or jurisdiction.
- Create an invoice item for each of the various sales tax rates you will need to track. When creating this item be sure to:
- Select the correct Sales Tax account in the Category field of the Create Item window
- Enter the tax rate amount in the Per Item Rate field.
- Click the select Percentage.
- If all invoice lines entered at this point are taxable, you can enter a subtotal line.
- Enter an invoice item with the correct sales tax rate. This sales tax rate will calculate based on the subtotal amount of the invoice.
- If you choose to, you can manually calculate the sales tax amount by clicking the pop-up calculator in the Amount column.
- Repeat step 4 or 5 for each different tax rate and/or jurisdiction.
Note: The correct tax amounts will be automatically transferred to the correct liability accounts. |
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