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Making Sales and Use Tax Payments

You can use Brass Jacks Bookkeeper to make your periodic sales tax payments for sales tax you have collected  and use tax that you have recorded for expenses. You specify a time period that includes the transactions you want to include in the tax payment. Brass Jacks Bookkeeper locates the transactions and calculates the taxes for you.

To view past payments, see Viewing Past Sales and Use Tax Payments.

To pay sales or use taxes:

1. Choose Sales > Pay Sales and Use Taxes.  
2. In the Sales & Use Tax Payment dialog box, to make a payment, specify a start date and an end date for the time period.
3. Select either Sales Tax or Use Tax.
4. If you selected Sales Tax, select the tax recipient in the For box. Click Get Amount to see the amount due.
   If you selected Use Tax, select the Account category for the transactions you wish to pay. Click Get Amount to see the amount due.
5. To view the transactions that are included in the specific time period, click the Show link. In the Tax Payment Transactions dialog box review the information and click Close. (Click Print to print the information.)
6. Select an Effective Date.
7. Specify a Payee.
   Tax agencies should be in your Vendors list. If they aren't, to add the agency, click the Payee link. (For details, see Adding or Editing Vendor Information.)
8. Select a payment method.
   Select Non Transactional if you don't have to actually pay the tax, but do want to maintain the historical record.
9. If you selected Credit/Debit Card, specify the card in the list.  
   If the card isn't in the list, click the Card link to add the card. (For details, see Adding a Company Card.)
10. If you wish, type a Comment about this transaction.
11. Click Save.