[GNC] Modelling employee expenses

[Adrien Monteleone]

Sales Tax on sales is *not* an expense or revenue. You shouldn’t need to balance it against anything. It’s a pass-through liability.‡ It should have no bearing on your books other than you have to collect it and remit it.

Note, if you are in a VAT jurisdiction and you are reimbursing for services, product or materials that will be resold/incorporated into a final product, then you have a complication with tracking the VAT paid on those expenses. (which there is another thread on the list in the last 3-4 months about as I mentioned.)

Sales Tax on purchases *is* an expense, you just record it in a regular expense account.‡

Regards,
Adrien

‡p.s. - be sure to verify these with a local CPA familiar with your jurisdiction. The above is general practice in the U.S.


> On May 22, 2018, at 6:21 PM, Matthew Pounsett <matt at conundrum.com> wrote:
> 
> On 22 May 2018 at 18:59, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> 
>>  I'm confused by the above. Do you get a bill from a vendor (e.g., Office
>> Depot) for something, and an expense voucher from an employee for the same
>> item?
>> 
> 
> No, I have an expense item from an employee which they need to be
> reimbursed for.  The employee includes as part of their expense report a
> receipt from the original vendor, which I'd like to track as a bill (for
> the reasons stated in my first email).
> 
> You mentioned you don't have employees... in your region can you get to
> balance sales tax from purchases against sales tax from sales?  If so, how
> do you track an out of pocket expense that your corporation needs to
> reimburse you for when there are sales taxes involved?
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