Which tax line should be assigned to "Discounts"?

Apr 18, 2006 3 Replies

I'm using QB Pro 2006 (CANADIAN), my wife has a small publishing company. She applies a fixed % discount on books sold to the authour and to customers such as resellers, libraries, etc.



Everything has worked out fine as far as day-to-day transactions and remitting the GST return. But now that it's tax time, I realise that the "Discount" account was setup without a Tax Line being assigned.



I assume this is a reduction of the cost of goods sold, but I'm unclear as to which tax line to assign to that account.



Any insight would be appreciated. TIA -A.


A sales discount is generally a reduction of income, or in some circumstances an increase in selling expenses, but never a reduction of COGS.

The Tax Line for a reduction of income should be the same as for Income. If it is a selling expense (less likely), select an appropriate line for that purpose.

Why would you not ask your accountant?

Thanks for the reply. I did mis-speak/type. I should have said it was a component , not a reduction of COGS.

As for asking my accountant, I suppose, like most everyone else here, if i was willing to pay an accountant for advise, i wouldn't have found this newsgroup.

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