Correcting sales tax payments

Feb 10, 2009 1 Replies

Is there a way to correct sales tax payments? In December I made the payment through venders: pay sales tax as usual, but almost immediately I realized I had made a mistake on my state taxes so I voided the payment. It did not allow me to go back and pay the tax the normal way so I just wrote a check and catagorized the payments in the accounts. When I paid January sales tax it showed I owed twice as many taxes (in other words, it looked as if I had not made my December tax payments). Stupidly, I just made an adjustment to the amount "for the time being" and thought I would fix it all when I came to work on Monday - but i can't figure out how. So now it looks as if I never paid December sales tax and then credited the business $350+ in January. Although my taxes are paid it doesn't look right in the books.



any suggestions as to how to fix my blunder? thank you!!!


I've never had to collect sales tax so never used it but help file indicate there's a Sales Tax Payable account register.

I temporarily set company preferences and indeed it did create the account and one can then open a register. It appears you should be able to correct to your heart's content there...

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