In my state, you are required to pay tax on non-inventory goods that are purchased in another state.
After reading others' solution for tracking this, I wondered why there is not a more generic way of doing this in QuickBooks. My solution is to make a split payment on the purchase that won't effect the reconciliation of the bank or credit card.
So, ignoring my pleas to buy stuff from California and buy American, dammit, each time this happens, I post the cash/credit with out-of-state vendor then add to the same entry the 8.25% Use Tax Payable with sales tax expense with California state as the vendor.
So how do you do it? The other solutions seem too elaborate for a single office, like
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would have you create an Other Charge item called Reversing Items Sold, making it Non-taxable, and applying it to a Sales Income account, etc.