When transactions are posted, sales taxes are calculated and posted automatically to ledger accounts in the Chart of accounts form. The default ledger posting groups are defined when you attach a ledger posting group to each sales tax code (or to each sales tax jurisdiction, if the company operates in the United Sates and uses this functionality).

Set up the sales tax ledger posting groups to precisely fit the needs of the company. You can set up individual ledger posting groups for each sales tax code; you can use one ledger posting group for all sales tax codes or you can assign a few ledger posting groups to the sales tax codes.

Prerequisite

Before you can set up the ledger posting groups, the ledger accounts that are used for sales taxes in the Chart of accounts form must be created.

1. Click General ledger> Setup> Sales tax> Ledger posting groups .

2. If necessary, press CTRL+N to create a line for the ledger posting group.

3. In the Ledger posting grouptext box, enter a unique code for the new ledger posting group.

4. In the Descriptiontext box, enter the name or description of the ledger posting group.

5. On the Overviewand Generaltabs, select the ledger accounts that are used to record various kind of sales taxes.

Depending on the status of the Apply U.S. sales tax and use tax rulescheck box on the Sales taxtab of the Parameters form, various lookup fields for ledger posting groups are available. For more information about these fields, press F1 in the Ledger posting groups form.