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how do I manually adjust tax amounts on bills?

I have a bill to enter that was part of an error that I made by underpaying a bill. My supplier has sent me a new July bill where the GST and PST are not the proper percentages of the net. This is partly due to some of teh items being at the old 7% GST rate.

According to the help file in quickbooks, I just go ahead and change the amount in the tax feilds. I have tried this many times and I wont work. I get a message telling me that the bill has to be in balance.

So how can I enter this bill?

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Reply to
Frank White
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Try changing the total amount on the bill first and then fix the details.

Reply to
Laura

Piece o' Cake, if you know the correct GST amount.

Enter the total as always. Enter the account. Enter the Tax Code you would use for this item. In the Net Amount column you enter the Total (as above), "-" (minus) the correct GST amount. The GST field will now show a wrong amount. Delete that with the cursor and enter the correct GST amount. Click Save & Close and you are done.

I have to do that almost every month because the GST on the Bell Canada Bill is always out by a few cents (complained to their Corporate offices). You are probably with Telus and they possibly do not screw up.

Let us know if that came out OK.

Reply to
Arno Martens

Thanks to Arno Martens for the following reply. It works.

--------------Quote: Enter the total as always. Enter the account. Enter the Tax Code you would use for this item. In the Net Amount column you enter the Total (as above), "-" (minus) the correct GST amount. The GST field will now show a wrong amount. Delete that with the cursor and enter the correct GST amount. Click Save & Close and you are done.

I have to do that almost every month because the GST on the Bell Canada Bill is always out by a few cents (complained to their Corporate offices). You are probably with Telus and they possibly do not screw up.

Let us know if that came out OK.

Reply to
Frank White

What I do is enter a line item for sales tax.

Reply to
Barnabas Collins

Are you sure you are talking GST in a Canadian QB version.

I used to do that in QBW2 after screwing up the set up of GST which was kind of alien to Intuit at the time. The result was that QBW4 would not upgrade the older version even though I spent several times 2 hours each with "Support" (yeah, right) in Colorado on my nickel. I gave it another try with QB2000 and it did not work. I finally entered a years invoices backwards and used the accountant approve trial balance for the previous year for opening balances. When tying to make line item adjustments for GST the registers were all screwed up and "-" here in the list led me through it until things were right.

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Arno Martens

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