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How to manually enter the sales tax on an invoice so that the sales tax can be displayed correctly in the Pay Sales Tax dialog box in Accounting Professional 2007 and in Accounting Express 2007
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INTRODUCTION
This article describes how to manually enter the sales tax on an invoice in Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2007 or in Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007 so that the sales tax can be displayed correctly in the
Pay Sales Tax dialog box.
MORE INFORMATION
To manually enter the sales tax on an invoice in Accounting Professional 2007 or in Accounting Express 2007, you must create both a tax agency vendor and a tax code, and then calculate the tax that you will enter as a line item to reflect the charged tax. To do this, follow these steps.
Create a tax agency vendor
- On the Company menu, point to Sales Tax, and then click New Tax Agency.
- In the Tax Agency dialog box, enter the appropriate information in the following boxes:
- Tax agency
- Payment term
- Liability account
- Enter any additional information in the Tax Agency dialog box.
- Click Save and Close.
Create a tax code
- On the Company menu, point to Sales Tax, and then click Manage Sales Tax Codes.
- Click Add.
- In the Add or Edit Tax Code dialog box, type a name in the Tax code field.
- In the Tax agency field, click the tax agency vendor that you created in the "Create a tax agency vendor" procedure.
- Verify that the tax rate is 0 (zero).
- Click OK.
- Click Close.
Enter a line item in an invoice
- On the Customers menu, point to New, and then click New Invoice.
- In the Customer name field, click the customer for the invoice.
- In the Products and services pane, click the line item that contains the sales tax that you want to charge for an item.
- Create a line that has the Sales Tax type selected in the first column.
- In the Name field, select the tax code that you created in the "Create a tax code" procedure.
- Calculate the tax manually. Then type the calculated tax amount in the Line Total column.
- Enter any additional information in the invoice.
- Click Save and Close.
For more information about how to set up sales tax so that it is automatically calculated and displayed correctly, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
835291Â
(http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=835291/
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How to set up multiple sales taxes in Accounting Express 2007, in Accounting Professional 2007, or in Small Business Accounting
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2007
- Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007
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