How can one include purchase tax (VAT) when recording expenses and bills? Very easy when creating a sales invoice but its a nightmare to get it to work in the purchases section. What am I doing wrong?
Im aware this was answered but it seems there were other updates and hence the reply does not suffice.
Hello Youn Ah Lee,
Welcome to the Community page,
Sound like you just don't have the setting turned on for it.
Can you go to the main cog wheel>account and settings> expneses> under heading bills and expenses > make sure the one that says Make expenses and items billable is ticked on > save
Go to the left-hand navigation bar and click into plus new expenses and the vat sections show up for you now.
If you have any issues please come back to us and let us know.
Hello Community Users, We just wanted to pop into this thread to advice the resolution for the Tax option not showing on purchases for future viewers of this thread. The reason this was happening for the user was because they were using an international version of Quickbooks where they need to manually set up their own tax codes. In this case tax codes had been set for sales by the user but not purchases. To resolve this, if this is the same as your situation, go to the taxes section>then rates and add purchase rates.
If you need default VAT codes you may want to look at whether the UK product is a better fit.
Any Q's feel free to add them here.
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