I see, that makes sense.  I guess that would make it easier to tie into an
appropriate GIFI account at the end of the year.

Thanks for the tip.

Ian

On 6 November 2010 19:26, Lenny Leblanc <[email protected]> wrote:

> When I'm paying bills I enter the base expense and the PST into the expense
> account that is applicable and the GST manually, not allowing SQL-Ledger to
> calculate.
>
> I'm in Manitoba so it's 7% PST and 5% GST.  So if I bought something for
> $100+tax that was "Office Supplies", I would enter under AP Transaction:
>
> 100 -> Office Supplies
> 7 -> Office Supplies (with note of PST)
> 5 -> GST (uncheck the box so it doesn't calculate automatically and enter
> manually)
>
> You get the same total and it puts the PST under the expense that it's been
> used.  This way at the end of the month you don't have $5k in PST expenses
> without really knowing what expense account that $5k was.
>
> I'm not sure if I'm explaining it clearly, but that's the method I use as
> an FYI.
>
> --
> Lenny
>
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Ian Durey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm confused about tracking and remitting PST in SQL-Ledger.
>>
>> In my province I do not get input credits for PST but I notice that
>> SQL-Ledger tracks PST paid as an input credit in the PST Payable liability
>> account by default.
>>
>> I suspect I should be tracking this as an expense as opposed to offsetting
>> the liability since I am accountable for the entire collected amount when I
>> remit PST.  I'm not sure how to set this up though.
>>
>> Here's what I did:
>>
>> Unlinked the default (liability) PST account from Payables
>> Set up a second PST account as an Expense account and linked it to
>> Receivables
>>
>> PST paid on purchases such as office supplies are now tracked as an
>> expense.
>>
>> When I pay my PST I run a report on the PST payable account and enter a GL
>> entry:
>>
>> Chequing Account: Credit pst_amount
>> PST Payable: Debit pst_amount
>>
>> Have I done this right or am I completely out to lunch?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>
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