How to Adjust Sales Tax in QuickBooks Desktop

QuickBooks provides its users with a useful feature that according to the tax authorities can easily adjust their sales tax. In this guide, you’ll learn everything related to adjust sales tax in QuickBooks Desktop so that, you can easily report your sales tax without any issues.

The collected sales tax is the net amount of tax collected on behalf of the government from consumers during sales. It is very important to comply with local and non-state tax agencies’ sales tax legislation for all forms of companies. The business owner needs to track taxable and non-taxable revenue separately.

How to Adjust Sales Tax in QuickBooks Desktop

If you use QuickBooks’ automatic sales tax, then the sales tax changes in QuickBooks are easy to add or remove. If you earn a tax credit, discount, or fine using the automated sales tax feature, you can easily adjust your sales tax. Let’s start exploring the easy process of adjusting sales tax (add sales tax, delete sales tax, sales tax payable) in QuickBooks Desktop.

Adjusting the Sales Tax

• Choose an option for the Vendor and then pick the sales tax
• You can then click on the Sales Tax Due Change button
• A new window will open for Sales Tax Change
• Enter the Sales tax vendor and adjustment account in the adjustment date category in this browser
• If you want to raise or decrease the sales tax, select it, and enter the number of amounts
• You should write Sales tax adjustments for reference within the memo
• Finally, click OK after reviewing the complete information.

Adjust Sales Tax Payable

• Login to your QuickBooks account and go to your dashboard.
• Click on the chart of accounts tab from the list menu.
• Click on the Edits tab and select the New Accounts button.
• From the Other account types, click Other current assets.
• In the name field, enter the name as you like. Here for the sake of this example, we will name it Sales tax adjustments.
• Click Close to close the chart of accounts.
• Now from the vendor’s menu, navigate to “Adjust sales tax due” from the Sales tax menu. Now Change the adjusted date to the date you would want to record the transaction.
• Select the Tax vendor you want the tax to be adjusted against. From the menu provided choose the Sales Tax Adjustment account you earlier created.
• Type the desired amount in the text box provided.
• Now click on the COA accounts to click on the sales tax adjustment account.
• Refresh the menu bar and you will now see the amount reflected in the account.

Delete Sales Tax Adjustment

If the adjusted tax is incorrect or incorrectly applied, QuickBooks gives you a different option to delete the sales tax adjustment:

• Go to the top-right gear icon and then click the Chart of Account
• Here is the income or expense account that you wish to delete the sales tax adjustment from
• After that, pick the report you are running, and then press the delete that you wish to delete
• At last, press the delete button and confirm the same.

Add Sales Tax Adjustment

Here are the steps involved under add sales tax adjustment:

Step 1: Create an account for sales tax adjustment

• Resolve an Expense account when you need to raise the due sales tax
• On the other side, create an income account where the sales tax needs to be minimized
• It is beneficial to establish a suitable account
• In the upper right corner, go to the gear icon
• And now, from the account drop-down menu, revenue or expenditures
• Income Account: Select the same if you want to decrease your sales tax
• Expense Account: Select the same if you wish to increase your sales tax
• hit the details
• Then, if you want to use the income account, click on product income sales
• Tap the pay taxes option if you would like to use an expense account
• Name the account such as tax changes for sales
• Pick save and close after reviewing.

Step 2: Add Adjustments

• Go to Taxes and then click on the Sales tax tab from the navigation bar
• Then pick the tax period you wish to adjust and click on the return view
• Pick Add the adjustment as well as the explanation for the adjustment
• After that when you want to adjust then choose the account.

We hope this information helps you to understand how to adjust the sales tax in QuickBooks. If you are not able to understand any point in this guide or you are having some issues while performing the process then you can get the QuickBooks experts consultant team by dialing a Tool-Free helpdesk number.

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