Topic · Autessa Payments
Sales Tax Calculation and Reporting
Autessa Payments calculates sales tax, VAT or GST from your customer’s address and what you sell, for the places you are registered, and totals it by place and month so filing is quick.
Features
What is in sales tax?
Autessa Payments adds sales tax for the places you are registered, suggests where to collect based on what you sell, locks tax when you send and totals it by place each month. Each feature has its own page with how it works, every option, who can do what and FAQs.
Sales tax calculation
Autessa Payments calculates sales tax, VAT or GST for the places you are registered, from your customer’s address and what you sell, and locks it on the invoice when sent.
Read more →What-you-sell tax guidance
Autessa Payments asks what you sell, then suggests the tax category, the places to collect in now and the places to watch, as general guidance you confirm.
Read more →Tax collected reports
Autessa Payments totals the tax you collected each month by place, with sales after refunds and payment counts, so you can file each return quickly.
Read more →At a glance
How Autessa Payments handles sales tax
Sales tax calculation →
- Add a place with Add a location: a country, and for the United States a state.
- Each place shows Active, or Scheduled if it starts later.
- Invoices to customers in your places include tax automatically; until you add one, no tax is added.
What-you-sell tax guidance →
- Pick a category; for software, also choose whether businesses or individuals buy it.
- Outside the US, Autessa also asks whether you are already registered for VAT or GST.
- Not sure? Choose Describe it and type what you sell (“project management app for small teams”) to get a category suggestion.
Tax collected reports →
- One row per place, for the month you pick.
- Sales are after refunds, and refunds reduce the tax for that place and month.
- Payments to customers outside every place you collect in show as No tax location.
FAQ
Questions about sales tax
How does Autessa Payments help at filing time?
It calculates, records and totals tax by place and month, so the numbers for each return are ready when you file and pay with your tax agencies.
Is this tax advice?
No. It is general information. For your exact situation, check with your tax agency or an accountant.
Does the report include refunds?
Yes. Sales are after refunds, and refunded tax comes off the place and month.
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