Posting a general journal entry with hst

Hi dutchy1,

Welcome to Community!  It's important that the applicable sales tax is posting correctly in your QuickBooks Desktop account.  I'd be happy to provide more insight here, so you're on the right track with your QuickBooks goals!

When creating a general journal entry it's important to add the sales tax to the item and not as a separate line item.  This prevents it from showing on the reports because it's not applied to a specific item.

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So if I am reading your reply correctly, I would post 100.00 to fuel and not break out the HST.  And trust the system to break it out?????

Just to confirm, dutchy1. When you run the report, is it in accrual basis or cash basis? The reason I ask is that the report amounts can report differently due to the accounting method, I recommend verifying the method you're using on your report. You can change this setting while running your reports by selecting the Cash or Accrual radio buttons under Accounting method.

I am using accrual

I see what's happening. In order for you to see the amount on the report in question, you'll have to add the taxes in your journal entry as you normally would instead of breaking it down as line item. This helps make sure your tax transactions are recognized by the tax module in QuickBooks which is where the tax data on reports is derived from. 

My accountant gave adjusting entries for the HST account but by posting them as a journal directly to the HST account I do not see it reflected in the HST detail report . How do I put them in so that my report shows it ?

Thanks for joining the thread, @C-C1.

I just want to confirm if your accountant have attached the sales tax item on the journal entry? Also, I would appreciate it if you can send us a screenshot of the JE that was created,

In the meantime, if the accountant followed Trish_T's advise to add a sales tax item, but the report still didn't include the changes, I highly recommend that you check in with our Support Team.

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