Big Business provides an array of sales tax features and options including:
• Customer Tax Status - to automatically calculate, or exempt, each customer
• Contact Tax Status - to automatically calculate, or exempt, each Ship-To for customers with multiple locations
• TaxJar Lookup - to automatically look up each shipping address with TaxJar
• Custom Lookup - to automatically look up each shipping address with your state

Big Business lets you select the Sales Tax on an Invoice. This is convenient if Sales Tax on the Customer Card is different--for example an out-of-state customer who is normally exempt, purchases in person and needs to pay local sales tax rates. (6173)

Big Business simplifies Sales Taxes, making it easy to calculate and track taxes where different rates apply to different items, such as food and non-food, or different rates apply for different amounts.

This Solution describes the settings for Sales Taxes. (6299)

Tax Exempt makes it simple to override tax calculations for tax-exempt customers.

This Solution provides details. (6855)

Big Business will automatically calculate the Sales Tax for a Line Item if the following conditions are met:
-the Tax Status is properly defined with a Category and a calculation
-the Customer for the transaction has a Tax Status assigned
-the Taxable checkbox on the Item Card is checked

This works for most situations because if one criterion is not met, tax is not calculated for the Line Item. You can define 0% Tax Statuses (e.g. Out of State) and nontaxable Items.

This poses a problem when you run into an exception. You cannot change the Taxable status of a Line Item without changing its Item Card. (3193)

Defining Complex Sales Taxes
Big Business supports VAT (Value Added Tax) and other complex sales tax structures. You can define and use sales tax rates that combine multiple individual taxes—local, provincial, and federal, for example. If you choose the Calculate First option for a tax, other taxes are calculated to include it.

To define complex sales tax structures:
1. Choose Show List from the Tax Status QuickPop list in the History tab of a Customer Card.
2. Click the Add button.
3. In the Add Sales Tax Item dialog box, define the tax, then click the OK button. (3076)

This Solution describes how to set up and collect complicated taxes, such as value added tax. (VAT) or compound taxes. You can set up taxes so that they incorporate various local and provincial taxes. (5173)

Sales Tax Groups let you organize Sales Taxes into groups, such as the states in which you have nexus and must collect sales tax. Then you can have Albany for NY and GA.

Turn on Sales Tax Groups in the Customer Prefs and restart Clients to use the setting.

Then in any Tax pulldown choose Show List to Add or Edit, Albany for GA, and NY.

Tax Status has been added to the Contact card to automate Sales Tax changes when switching Addresses.

This Solution describes the settings for Sales Taxes. (6725)

Sales Taxes Search is a new tool on the Reporting toolbar. Use it to Find and Update your Tax Statuses. For example, find the entries for a state and mark them Inactive when they are being replaced by address lookup.