Hi All,

We have some vendors whos GST we pay ins't getting coded to our GST paid account in the GL - it is just getting strait expensed.

We are using POs 8.0 (07-May-2008) -> AP 8.1A (070919) -> GL 8.1A (070923).

When the PO is adjusted in POs, there is a line displaying GST with the correct amount that we should pay.

I think the problem is occuring when the adjustment is going into AP - it isn't seperating the GST from the subtotal.

Can you please let me know what needs to be set in the customer, the item, and the tax groups so that GST will get posted to the correct account. It looks like now there is nohting set up for customers in the tax group in question, so I'm thinking that's it. I just wanted to make sure with all the different places tax status is set (like the item).

Thanks!

Hi,

PO sends taxes to the GL based on how you have your Tax Group(s) set up in PO Maintenance. After taxable amounts are invoiced and DE is run, you can see this by running the GL Transactions Consolidation report in PO.

Select a Costing Method of AP for the jurisdictions in your Tax Group if you want the taxes postd to a specific GL account.

Thanks for the help! That fixed it.

One last question:

Will the tax status of the item effect anything, or if I see tax on the adjustment, and the costing method is AP, then the tax will get posted to those GL accounts?

Yes, the tax status will affect things.

For example, let's say the item has a tax status of 2 meaning that it is GST & PSTable (let's ignore HST for the moment please) and the customer has a tax status of 1 meaning that it is GST taxable only. When the item is receipted as an invoice, the lower of the two tax statuses (eg. '1') will be selected by the program. This will be the tax that you see on the receipt invoice Totals tab and that will be sent to the appropriate GL account. Remember, the GL account is defined when you select the jurisdiction costing method of AP in the Tax Group.