I want to have a 5% sales tax category for books (in Ontario) so that when I review my purchases I can assign this amount of tax paid

Hi TorontoPat,

Welcome to the Community. It's important that you are able to successfully apply each province's taxes to your transactions to keep your books balanced.  QuickBooks is a great program that offers the ability to track your sales taxes to ensure that the correct amount is reported to the government. I'd be glad to point in the right direction on how to add other provincial taxes to your transactions.

In order to apply other provincial taxes to your transactions, you will need to add the provinces in the tax centre. I'll explain how:

1. Click on Taxes on the left navigation menu.
2. Choose Sales tax.
3. Select Manage Sales tax > and then Add tax.
4. On add the provinces where you track sales tax, click on Add.
5. Select the drop-down menu and choose the province you'd like to add.
6. Click on Add and then Done.

Once added, you'll be able to apply Ontario taxes to your invoices and expenses.

Let me know if you have any questions, I'll be happy to help.