Taxes in Projects

In MYOB Acumatica, you can post expenses associated with sales and use taxes under the projects selected in AP bills to accurately record project expenses. These expenses will be posted when such a bill is released.

On the Bills and Adjustments (AP301000) form, if a project identifier is specified in the Project column for a line of an AP bill, the tax expense amount will be posted to the general ledger under the project ID of the line. Based on the GL transactions that are generated for the bill, the system will create project transactions, and the tax expense amounts will be reflected on the project balance. Use tax and sales tax amounts are posted under the project ID of the corresponding AP document line if the tax expense account is included in an account group; otherwise, tax expenses will be posted under the project ID defined as the non-project code (which by default is X ).

If multiple lines of the bill have the same combination of project ID (the Project column), project task ID (the Project Task column), cost code (the Cost Code column), inventory item (the Inventory ID column), and GL account (the Account column), the system will create an aggregated GL entry with that project ID and the total tax expense amount.

GL Transactions

In the following example, an AP bill for $9095.00 with a 7% sales tax ($595) and a 3% use tax ($255) is created.

Table 1. AP Bill with Sales and Use Taxes
Project Task Amount Sales Tax Amount Use Tax Amount Description
03-001 16-100 3000.00 210.00 90.00 Fire protection
03-002 15-300 4000.00 280.00 120.00 Electrical work
03-002 15-300 500.00 35.00 15.00 Electrical work
03-005 15-200 1000.00 70.00 30.00 Painting work
8500.00 595.00 255.00

When the bill is posted to the general ledger, the system creates the following GL entries.

Table 2. GL Entries After the AP Bill Is Posted
Account Project Task Debit Credit Description
AP Non-project code 0.00 9095.00
Tax Payable Non-project code 0.00 255.00 Use Tax
Expenses 03-001 16-100 3000.00 0.00 Fire protection
Expenses 03-002 15-300 4000.00 0.00 Electrical work
Expenses 03-002 15-300 500.00 0.00 Electrical work
Expenses 03-005 15-200 1000.00 0.00 Painting work
Tax Expense 03-001 16-100 210.00 0.00 Sales Tax
Tax Expense 03-002 15-300 315.00 0.00 Sales Tax
Tax Expense 03-005 15-200 70.00 0.00 Sales Tax
Tax Expense 03-001 16-100 90.00 0.00 Use Tax
Tax Expense 03-002 15-300 135.00 0.00 Use Tax
Tax Expense 03-005 15-200 30.00 0.00 Use Tax