Do I need to charge taxes? Should I? I am a marketing consultant charging an hourly rate for services monthly.

Welcome to the Community, Divinetiming.

I'll help you set up automated sales tax in QuickBooks Online.

You can set up your service as a sale. When you set up automated sales tax in QuickBooks Online, it will automatically calculate the total sales tax rate for each sale based on the following:

• Your customer's sales tax-exempt status.
• Where you sell and where you ship.
• Your service or product's sales tax category.

Here is an article you can read to learn more about automated sales tax in QuickBooks Online: Set up and use automated sales tax in QuickBooks Online.

After setting up and using automated sales, you can then assign sales tax categories to your service. It will let QuickBooks know how much sales tax you need to charge.

I'm also adding this article to help you file your sales tax return and record your tax payment: File your sales tax return and record sales tax payments in QuickBooks Online.

Feel free to click the Reply button below if you have questions about sales tax. I'm always here to help. Have a great day.