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Sales Tax problem

I have searched help and the knowledge database to no avail. Hopefully someone can help me.

Our sales are done with "Sales Receipts" and "Invoices". All reports and the "Pay Sales Tax" window properly reflects this for June. Other sales tax payables, such as company purchases for internal use, are entered in the General Journal. For June, the "other" tax payables is $30.44 which is what the Sales Tax Liability" report shows, yet in the "Pay Sales Tax" window, it show it to be $61.14. I have already paid all sales taxes that were owed for May, so I assume the difference between the $30.44 and $61.44 had to occur during June.

I looked through the Sales Tax Payable account (each entry for June), and all the Sales Receipts, Invoices, General Journal Entries and the month ending balance matches the Sales Tax Liability report. Where else could that difference come from? I have to pay the tax tomorrow, so I hop I find an answer.

Thanks for your help,

Preston

Reply to
Preston Andreas
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General Ledger entries aren't "sales taxable" and may not show in the pay sales tax window, because there may not be a sales tax vendor associated with them.

If you include the sales tax liability account in your G/L entry in the correct amount, you may get an other line on your pay sales tax window, but it might fall in the wrong period or fail to show at all. If it doesn't show, that is why there is the adjustment option.

What is the sales tax revenue report showing?

BTW, I suspect a lot of people use the method of filling out the tax form, then using adjust sales tax payable to put in those purchases subject to use tax or prepaid sales tax items into SlowBooks. Unfortunate, but SlowBooks never implemented a way to track them.

Reply to
Golden California Girls

SNIP........

"other line" in the Pay Sales Tax window that you mention that doesn't match my other purchase that were entered in General Journal entries. These Journal entries are credited to Sales Tax Payable and associated in the Name column to the State Comptroller. These entries show up in the "other line". Unfortunately, all these Journal entries add up to $30.44 while the other line in the Sales Tax Liability Window shows $61.14. I can't find this difference of $30.70 in the Sales Tax Payable account, or anywhere else I look.

Thanks so far.

Preston

Reply to
Preston Andreas

Inside the "Pay Sales Tax" window, it says "show sales tax through -

06/30/2006". It correctly does this for sales tax collected through sales receipts and invoices. However, for General Journal entries for sales tax owed due to other purchases or write-offs, the "Pay Sales Tax" window (in spite of the date range it shows) gives the tax owed through to the current date. This means it includes up to July 20th (today), even though it states in the window it is only through June 30th. Sure sounds like a glitch to me.

The "Sales Tax Liability" report is correct and is what should be used to pay last month's sales tax.

Thanks for your help. You have saved my behind more than once.

Preston

Reply to
Preston Andreas

I said "it may fall into the wrong period."

Reply to
Golden California Girls

Why not just set up an expense account use tax and increase or decrease the pay sales tax amount the necessary amount and credit it to that account?

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Ron Anderson

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