Overview
SalesPad Cloud's Tax Schedule module allows you to link different Tax Codes and Tax Agencies to a single Tax Schedule. Each Tax Code has a percentage and a Tax Agency associated with it. When a Tax Schedule is applied to a sales document, the summation of each Tax Code percentage multiplied against the extended price of each sales line derives the final tax amount and total for the sales document.
To get started, select Tax Schedule from the Settings menu.
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Tax Schedule
Create a Tax Schedule
To create a Tax Schedule, click the New Tax Schedule button in the upper left-hand corner of the Tax Schedule screen.
The Create Tax Schedule drawer will appear. Give your Tax Schedule a name and description, then click Save to close the drawer.
Your new Tax Schedule will now appear in the grid on the left-hand side of the screen.
To add or remove one or more Tax Codes to your Tax Schedule follow the instructions in the Add or Remove Tax Codes to Tax Schedules section of this document.
Edit a Tax Schedule
To edit the name or description of an existing Tax Schedule, or to make the Tax Schedule inactive, click the Edit icon in the Tax Schedule's cell (this icon is not visible until you hover over the far right of the Tax Schedule cell.
The Edit Tax Schedule drawer will appear. Make your changes here, then click Save to close the drawer.
Tax Code
Create a Tax Code
To create a Tax Code, click the New Tax Code button in the upper left-hand corner of the Tax Code side of the Tax Schedule screen.
Note: Make sure you have the Tax Schedule you want to add this Tax Code to selected in the grid on the left-hand side of the screen, or no Tax Schedule selected. If you have a different Tax Schedule selected, you will then have to remove the Tax Code from this Tax Schedule.
The Create Tax Code drawer will open. Fill out the information fields in this drawer.
For a brief explanation of the different information fields in the Create Tax Code drawer, click here:
Create Tax Code
Tax Code Name - Allows you to give the Tax Code a name
Description - Allows you to give the Tax Code a description
Tax Value (%) - Assigns a percentage value to the Tax Code
Tax Agency - Assigns a Tax Agency to the Tax Code
Tax Code Detail Type - Designates whether this Tax Code is meant for sales or purchases
When you've finished entering your information, click Save.
Your new Tax Code will now appear in the grid on the left-hand side of the screen.
Edit a Tax Code
To edit the name or description of an existing Tax Code, or to make the Tax Code inactive, click the Edit icon in the Tax Schedule's cell (this icon is not visible until you hover over the far right of the Tax Schedule cell.
The Edit Tax Code drawer will appear. Make your changes here, then click Save to close the drawer.
Add or Remove Tax Codes to Tax Schedules
To add Tax Codes to a Tax Schedule, select the Tax Schedule you want to add the Tax Codes to, then select the Add Existing Tax Code option from the More Actions dropdown.
The Attach Tax Code drawer will appear. Select the Tax Code from the Tax Code dropdown, then indicate whether this Tax Code is intended for sales or for purchases by selecting the appropriate Tax Code Detail Type.
Click Save to close the drawer.
To remove Tax Codes from a Tax Schedule, select the Tax Schedule you want to remove the Tax Codes from, then check the box for any Tax Code you want removed. Next, select the Remove Tax code(s) option from the More Actions dropdown.
The selected Tax Codes will be removed from the selected Tax Schedule.
Line Level Taxes
When the Line Level Tax Enabled checkbox is checked in your System Settings, your Item Master and sales/purchasing transaction line Tax Codes are available to edit. Please note that this setting is disabled by default for new companies.
Line-level taxes work by calculating taxes based off of overlapping tax rates within the header-level and line-item level Tax Codes on the sales document. If there is an overlap, then the appropriate line items are taxed. Here is an example:
Let's say you are working with three Tax Codes: Michigan, Food Item, and Merchandise. The Michigan Tax Code has a single 6% tax rate called "Michigan Product", the Food Item Tax Code has a single 2% tax rate called "Food Product", and the Merchandise Tax Code has two tax rates: "Michigan Product" at 6% and "Food Product" at 2%. You also have a single taxable inventory item, called Widget, that has its Tax Code set to Merchandise. And, finally, your Contact Used For Tax setting is set to Shipping.
A customer whose Shipping Contact has a Michigan Tax Code is added to a sales document, and therefore the sales document's Tax Code is now set to Michigan. The Widget is then added as a line item on the sales document, so that line's Tax Code is now set to Merchandise. The sales document overall now has two Tax Codes to evaluate when calculating final tax: Michigan and Merchandise.
When the sales document calculates its tax, it will look for overlapping tax rates between the sales document and the sales lines. In our case, the "Michigan Product" tax rate exists in both the sales document and sales line Tax Codes, so the sales line item's tax amount is calculated at 6% (the Michigan Product rate).
If the Food Product Tax Code had been set at the sales document level (e.g. a customer with a Food Product Tax Code on their Shipping Contact), the overlap would have occurred on the "Food Product" tax rate, and the sales document would've calculated the line item tax at 2%. If an item without an overlapping tax rate was added to the sales document (an item whose Tax Code was something other than Merchandise), then no tax would be applied to that sales line.
The Is Shipping Taxable checkbox next to the Shipping Amount field on sales documents can also affect final taxes on a sales document. If a customer's Shipping Contact has their own Is Shipping Taxable checkbox checked, the Is Shipping Taxable checkbox on the sales document will automatically be checked when that customer is added to the sales document. When the sales document's Shipping Taxable box is checked, the Tax Code associated with the Shipping Item Master (specified in the QuickBooks Online Import settings) is evaluated for overlap against the sales document's Tax Code in order to determine the final taxable percent.
See it in Action
Tax Schedules are used on various sales documents, such as invoices.
Tax Codes are assigned to contacts in the Create or Edit Customer drawers, and to inventory items in the Create or Edit Item drawers.
