Dealing with PST, GST

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Robert Smits <bob at rsmits.ca> writes:

> Hello, all.
>
> I'm setting up accounts for a new business where I have to bill customers for 
> BC PST and Canadian GST, and then periodically pay the governments.
>
> So I read as many of the old threads on GST and Double taxes as I could find 
> in the listserve.
>
> I've set up under liabilities two accounts for PST and GST, and under each of 
> them, three accounts each for PST and GST - Billable, Paid and Remit.
>
> I've set up a tax table called sales tax that combines PST at 7% and GST at 
> 5%.
>
> When I create an invoice, it correctly calculates PST and GST and puts the 
> correct amount in the GST Billed and PST Billed Accounts. 
>
> Now what happens when I mark the invoice paid? Where do the sales tax items 
> go? Is there something else I've forgotten.

The business systems will enter the taxes as collected when you post the
invoice, not when the invoice is paid (accrual, not cash).  So long as
you don't cross period boundaries then that's fine.  If you do then
you'll need to manually adjust the entries in your reports.  But there's
nothing else you need to do per se.

When you pay the taxes to the gov't you'll need to transfer those
amounts appropriately.

-derek

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