Sales Tax Locations

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Set up sales tax Use sales tax codes Use sales tax locations Associate a customer with a tax location or as tax-exempt Applying tax to sales Collect multi-rate taxes Collect tax based item price thresholds Collect tax on shipping amounts Run sales tax reports Send tax information to QuickBooks

Pro: If you have multiple stores, sales tax locations must be set up at Headquarters. Remote stores can select the default tax location applicable to sales at their store in company preferences.

Sales tax locations can be used to define different taxing instructions for each of your tax codes to handle sales in different tax jurisdictions or for customers that qualify for special tax rates.

One default tax location named Local Sales Tax is defined for you; you can rename this location if you want. The use of additional tax locations is optional.

Sales tax locations are configured on the Sales Tax page of company preferences.

Notes

- A second tax location, named Exempt, is hard-coded and not displayed in your sales tax preferences. This location is used for customers you have marked as tax-exempt and has an automatic 0% tax rate for all tax codes. You can filter sales reports by this hidden tax location.

- If you use multiple tax locations, adding or deleting a tax code in one location adds or deletes that code in all locations.

- If the taxing instructions for a code are different in different locations, edit the tax code as appropriate for each location. Editing a tax code in one location does not affect that tax code in other locations.

Related Topics

Associating a tax location with a customer

Changing tax locations at time of sale