Sales Tax in Quickbooks Desktop/Enterprise

There are a couple of things to consider to make it easier to match Sales Tax Payable with the Pay Sales Tax Window, @AWE. We'll provide more information below to help you resolve your inquiry promptly.

Discrepancies are usually caused by a date range mismatch, an incorrect accounting basis, or manually posted and future-dated transactions. In addition, the Pay Sales Tax window will not reflect transactions that were manually posted to the Sales Tax Payable account. It only recognizes sales tax payments made through the official Pay Sales Tax function. To get around this, we can run a Sales Tax Liability report to get a detailed insight into every transaction affecting the account. Here’s how:

1. From the top menu bar, go to Reports.
2. Hover over Vendors & Payables.
3. Select Sales Tax Liability from the drop-down menu.

For visual reference, see the image below.

Reviewing the manual entries and utilizing the Client Data Review option within the program can help you troubleshoot incorrectly recorded sales tax payments. For more details, please refer to this page: Accountant tools: Review list changes.

Feel free to revisit this thread if you have any additional questions about the program or need assistance performing a specific task. We'll make sure to be around to assist you promptly.