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.
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Tax Tracking
The taxes that are applied under your sales and purchase transactions can be tracked under:
Track Taxes Under A Single Account
The taxes applied on your sales and purchase transactions will be tracked under a single account. By default, these taxes will be tracked under the Tax Payable account.
Track Taxes Under Separate Accounts
If you would like to track the taxes applied to your sales and purchase transactions under different accounts, you can do so. The taxes applied on the sales and purchase transactions will be tracked under the Output Tax and the Input Tax accounts respectively.
Insight: The setting will be applicable for other Zoho Finance applications as well.
To start tracking taxes under separate accounts:
- Go to Settings > Taxes.
- Select the Tax Settings tab.
- Select Track Taxes Under Separate Accounts.
Adding New Taxes
To create or add a new Tax, follow steps as below:
Click on the Settings 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 %.
Define if the tax has to be charged at compound rate.
Enable the checkbox if your newly created tax is going to be a compound tax.
Click Save.
What is a 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.
If you had chosen to track taxes under seperate accounts, you can choose to track taxes under a single account while creating a new tax.
- Click Edit.
- Select Track taxes under a single account.
- Click Save.
Editing Taxes
To edit an existing Tax follow steps as below:
Click on the Settings icon found on the top right hand side corner of the screen and click on More Settings. Click on Taxes.
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.
- 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.
If you had chosen to track taxes under seperate accounts, you can choose to track taxes under a single account while editing the tax.
- Click Edit.
- Select Track taxes under a single account.
- Click Save.
Note: Changing the tax tracking preference will not affect the previous transactions.
Deleting Taxes
To delete an existing tax follow steps as below:
Click on the Settings 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.
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 fulfill this regulatory requirement. To create a Tax Group follow steps as below:
Click on the Settings 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.
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