GST - How to calculate / manage / track GST.

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Jun 8 11:05:20 EDT 2004


Doctorcam <cam at ellisonpsychology.ca> writes:

> * Derek Atkins (warlord at MIT.EDU) wrote:
>> Ben,
>> 
>> Thanks for your input.  This has been hashed and rehashed on this list
>> several times over the last year.  There is no "GST report" that sums
>> everything for you, but if you use the business features it will
>> compute this all for you properly.
>
> An accountant friend of mine advised setting up two liability
> subaccounts, for GST Paid and GST Payable.  This seems to work very
> nicely.

Why would these both be liabilities?  GST Paid isn't money you
owe, so it shouldn't be a liability.

> Cam

-derek

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