Using the Sales Tax Payable register

Each time you write an invoice or sales receipt that includes sales tax, QuickBooks enters the information in your Sales Tax Payable register. No matter how many tax agencies (QuickBooks tax vendors) you must collect for, QuickBooks keeps track of transactions for all tax vendors in the same Sales Tax Payable account.

To display the Sales Tax Payable register:

  1. Choose Lists > Chart of Accounts.
  2. Select your Sales Tax Payable account.
  3. Choose Use Register from the Action pop-up menu ( image).
    • Each entry in the register is a single tax transaction.
    • Taxes you record on invoices and sales receipts appear as increases, and payments you make to tax agencies appear as decreases.
    • The ending balance of the register is your current tax liability.

To get more information: