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Taxes

Your business’ financials are affected by regulatory taxes and each organization has different country specific taxes to adhere to. You may have added Taxes in the Quick Setup section. You can edit or add further Taxes through the Settings section.

Adding New Taxes

To create or add a new Tax, follow steps as below:

  • Click on the Gear Icon found on the top right hand side corner of the screen and click on Taxes.
  • To add a new tax, click on + New Tax.
  • Provide a Tax Name.
  • Enter the relevant Rate in %.
  • Enable the checkbox if your newly created tax is going to be a compound tax.
  • Click Save.

New tax

Insight: Compound Tax - In some countries you might have to collect more than one tax from your customers. It is for you to pay to your local province and another to the federal authority. In certain cases, the provincial tax is applied on the total that includes the item or invoice amount as well as the federal tax amount. Such taxes are called as Compound Taxes.

Editing Taxes

To edit an existing tax, please follow the steps below:

  • Click on the Gear icon found on the top right hand side corner of the screen and click on Taxes from the drop-down.
  • In the Edit Tax screen, edit the desired fields such as Tax Name, Rate and select if it is a compound tax.
  • Click Save for the changes to take effect.

Edit tax

  • If this tax has already been applied in some transactions, you will asked to confirm if you wish to update the new tax rate in those transactions as well.

Update Tax Rate

Deleting Taxes

To delete an existing tax follow steps as below:

  • Click on the Gear Icon found on the top right hand side corner of the screen and click on More Settings. Click on Taxes.
  • Scroll over the desired tax row and click on the trash bin icon which appears. Confirmation pop-up screen will double check your intention. Click to OK to Delete or Cancel to skip.

Delete tax

Adding a New Tax Group

It is customary in some countries to club some taxes under a common head. In such cases you will have to create Tax Group which will fullfill this regulatory requirement. To create a Tax Group follow steps as below:

  • Click on the Gear Icon found on the top right hand side corner of the screen and click on More Settings. Click on Taxes.
  • Click on the + New Tax Group option present on the top right corner.
  • Provide a Tax Group Name.
  • Select the taxes to be clubbed together by clicking on the check box, next to the desired taxes.
  • Click Save to add new tax group.

Add Tax group

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