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Separate line item for Sales/Use tax liability

We often have AP invoices that come in where they charged the incorrect sales/use tax rate. For instance, a product was shipped to our main office location but the material is to be used on a job-site with a higher tax rate. Right now it's not possible in AP to break out and charge that additional sales tax liability to the job; which also means it's not able to be coded to our GL tax liability account. This causes a lot of manual reporting and breaking out reports at the end of each month

  • Rachael Baillargeon
  • Jan 18 2022
Company Neo Electrical Solutions
Job Title / Role Controller
I need it... Yesterday...Come on already
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  • Guest commented
    March 30, 2022 21:42

    It is possible, but it requires 2 more line items in the AP invoice detail. Assume $1,000 of materials and a 1% Use Tax Code for the difference.

    Line 1 - $1,000 with the sales tax to be be paid to the vendor.

    Line 2 - $1,000 with the 1% use tax to be paid to the state

    Line 3 - ($1,000) with no tax at all.


    The effect to the job is $1,000 in materials with the correct tax and liabilty accounts.

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