TAX (VAT) on bills/purchases

Jancarl · ‎March 07, 2019

How can one include purchase tax (VAT) when recording expenses and bills? Very easy when creating a sales invoice but its a nightmare to get it to work in the purchases section. What am I doing wrong?

Im aware this was answered but it seems there were other updates and hence the reply does not suffice.

emmam6 · ‎March 29, 2023

Hello Community Users, We just wanted to pop into this thread to advice the resolution for the Tax option not showing on purchases for future viewers of this thread. The reason this was happening for the user was because they were using an international version of Quickbooks where they need to manually set up their own tax codes. In this case tax codes had been set for sales by the user but not purchases. To resolve this, if this is the same as your situation, go to the taxes section>then rates and add purchase rates.

If you need default VAT codes you may want to look at whether the UK product is a better fit.

Any Q's feel free to add them here.

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TaliaI · ‎March 07, 2019

Hello Jancarl,

Welcome to the Community - thank you for your question!

VAT should work exactly the same as it does in invoices - what issues are you experiencing when trying to apply purchase VAT?

Thanks,

Talia

Jancarl · ‎March 07, 2019

Ive attached a screenshot to make it easier.

There is no section to enter tax, and also I checked through supplier profile to see if there is an option from there but didnt find any.

Jancarl · ‎March 07, 2019

On the sales invoice it comes up automatically from the drop down

TaliaI · ‎March 07, 2019

Hello JanCarl,

Do you have access to Facebook or Twitter so you can private message us your email address and look into this further for you? We can be reached through QuickBooksUK.

Thanks,

Talia

Jancarl · ‎March 07, 2019

Yes I have access to facebook, Ive just sent a msg with my email address.

Thanks

TaliaI · ‎March 07, 2019

Hello Jancarl.

Which Facebook account did you send the message to? Could you try to resend this and make sure it is the Facebook for UK QuickBooks?

Thanks,

Talia

Jancarl · ‎March 07, 2019

Hi there,

Unfortunately I tried calling, but they couldn't help as its an "international account" I just bought and paid for quickbooks online thinking its a global thing. Ive spoken to 3 different support gent but with no avail. So I assume even if I contact through facebook UK i do not get anywhere.

Spent half a day trying to get help on this but everyone keeps dodging the issue it seems to me.

EmmaM · ‎March 07, 2019

Hi JanCarl

We recently replied to your Facebook message regarding purchase tax.Did you get our message?

Kind regards

Emma

Youn Ah Lee · ‎July 29, 2020

Hi, I have a same issue with this client.

Would you please let me know how to put VAT on purchase bills?

Regards,

Leah

Ashleigh1 · ‎July 29, 2020

Hello Youn Ah Lee,

Welcome to the Community page,

Sound like you just don't have the setting turned on for it.

Can you go to the main cog wheel>account and settings> expneses> under heading bills and expenses > make sure the one that says Make expenses and items billable is ticked on > save

Go to the left-hand navigation bar and click into plus new expenses and the vat sections show up for you now.

If you have any issues please come back to us and let us know.

emmam6 · ‎March 29, 2023

Hello Community Users, We just wanted to pop into this thread to advice the resolution for the Tax option not showing on purchases for future viewers of this thread. The reason this was happening for the user was because they were using an international version of Quickbooks where they need to manually set up their own tax codes. In this case tax codes had been set for sales by the user but not purchases. To resolve this, if this is the same as your situation, go to the taxes section>then rates and add purchase rates.

If you need default VAT codes you may want to look at whether the UK product is a better fit.

Any Q's feel free to add them here.

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