Please send tax exempt for tax-exempt resellers and tax-exempt items.

BCSS Accommodates Two Sales Taxes:

• Local Tax (City/County in the U.S., PST in Canada)
• Sales Tax (State in U.S., GST in Canada)

Tax rates are set in Program Setup, Sales.

Two tax fields are provided. Enter applicable descriptions and rates (in decimal form). Example: Enter .07 for 7%. The display will be to 5 decimals places.

Tax Options

• If only one tax is entered, each line item on an Invoice will be tax or no tax.
• New Invoices have a non-tax check box which applies to the entire Invoice.
• If both taxes are entered, each item on an Invoice will have four tax options: apply tax 1; apply tax 2; apply both; apply none

• If both taxes are entered, they will be combined as a total on the On-Screen Invoice but will print separately on the Sales Receipt.

On the New-Sale Screen (F6):

Sales Taxes are automatically calculated and displayed as one total.

Put a check in the Non-Taxable Field if all items on the invoice are nontaxable.

For each line item, click on the box below Tax % and select None, 'Tax 1', 'Tax 2', or 'Both'. (Actual values will be shown, like 0.0600 for Tax 1, 0.0100 for Tax 2, 0.0700 for Both.)

Sales Receipts

If 2 taxes apply, they will be printed separately on Sales Receipts.

Tax Reports

To generate a Tax Report:

1. Click on Reports on the Main Menu and select Sales.
2. Make settings on the Sales Report Screen to control which taxes are to appear in the report:
   • To see all taxes for a specific period, check Invoice Date and enter the date range.
   • Select a Buyer, Category, Consignor or Salesperson to see applicable tax.
3. Press Sales Recap (lower right).
4. Uncheck the first 3 options.
5. Press Preview/Print. (If there is more than one page displayed, use the right arrow in the top menu to go to the last page.)

The Shop Totals part of the Sales Recap Report will show separate totals for taxes even if they were applied together on Invoices. The last line in the sales tax break out will be total non-taxable sales.

Tax Rounding

The final tax on every invoice must be rounded (up to the nearest cent) but BCSS reports will show tax amounts to 5 decimal places, which is the amount to be paid to the taxing agencies. That amount may vary slightly from the actual amount of tax collected, but BCSS doesn't show the difference.

The State of Maryland, for one, requires that sales tax be rounded up to the next cent for any fraction of a cent, even if it is just one cent. To activate this option, check Always round taxes up. in Program Setup on the Sales tab.

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