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How does integrating Acctivate with QuickBooks Desktop affect sales tax liability reports?

Learn how Acctivate's integration with QuickBooks Desktop impacts your sales tax tracking and reporting process.

Acctivate integrates with QuickBooks Desktop to help you track and report sales tax collected on invoices. While Acctivate manages tax calculations on sales transactions, the tax items and the sales tax liability reporting is completed in QuickBooks.

  1. Sales Tax Calculation in Acctivate:
    • Acctivate imports tax items & groups from QuickBooks to calculate sales tax during order entry and invoicing.
    • Tax is applied based on the tax category assigned to the Customer's ship-to location.
    • How to create and sync tax categories
  2. Invoice Posting to QuickBooks:
    • When you create an invoice in Acctivate, the transaction—including the tax amount—is sent to QuickBooks on the next sync.
    • QuickBooks records the sale and allocates the sales tax to the correct tax agency based on the tax item used.
  3. Sales Tax Liability Reporting in QuickBooks:
    • Once posted, the tax amounts are tracked in QuickBooks, and you can generate the Sales Tax Liability Report from:
      • Reports > Vendors & Payables > Sales Tax Liability
    • This report summarizes tax collected by agency and is used for filing returns.