Sales Tax Liability-after the fact

Is there a way to create a sales tax liability after the fact?

We have a vendor that we have made progress payments to and still owe some money to. It is an out of state (out of country actually) vendor who did not include state sales tax in their proposal or billings. We are subject to NYS Use tax.

The commitment was not entered using the Sales Tax liability, and has items posted to it. How do I go about getting the Sales Tax liability (aka use tax) on my books for those invoices and have them as part of the job cost?

I cannot create an invoice for just a sales tax liability.

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    Hi ,

     

    Since it looks like you are using Sage 300 CRE, I am going to move this post to that Support Group so that other users of this software will see it and can offer you their thoughts and insight.

     

    Thanks,

    Erzsi

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    I'm not an expert on this by any means, but I think what we would probably do is enter reversing transactions to "back out" the invoices already entered, then enter new invoices with the correct setup showing the tax liability.  You may have to void the checks and select "retain as new" so you can reuse the same check number when you do it.

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    Thank you Siri.  I was trying to avoid voids and re-enters due to closed periods and multiple COs on the commitment. I decided to just enter 2 new invoices, one to the job including the tax liability as a positive,and a second to the job without the tax liability as a negative and then creating a fake zero dollar check.They do not tie to the commitment at all, but for this purpose they do not need to.

    Where is "retain as new" on the check void. I do not see this on my void payments screen, but would love to use it in the future.

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    Hi, L Andersen.  We had this problem, and we did our reversals and reentries as additional lines on the commitment itself.  That way the tax liability can show up as unpaid.  On your next payment to this vendor, be sure to pay the taxes owed on all previously paid invoices and apply the invoices against the new open commitment lines.  

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    Hi L Andersen,

    I think Siri H. may have been getting confused with the options available in Payroll, where you can void a check and Retain as new for future processing. Accounts Payable does not have this feature.