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Out-of-state Sales Tax Tracking Marinus van der Lubbe 12-01-2007
Posted by Marinus van der Lubbe on December 1, 2007, 12:39 pm
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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
http://www.etrdirect.com/dealing-with-use-tax-in-quickbooks.html
which 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.

Posted by Allan Martin on December 1, 2007, 3:32 pm
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> 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

Elaborate, who ever wrote that article must have been stoned out on drugs.



> http://www.etrdirect.com/dealing-with-use-tax-in-quickbooks.html
> which 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.


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