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Tax Exemption No. or GLN

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Greetings and salutations:

Our not-for-profit is setting up BC as our new ERP, which requires a bit of "retrofitting" to make it do things the way we need it to work. I've quizzed several of you about how to make it do fund accounting and I think we're making good progress there.

Now, on what I think is a much smaller matter, I'm puzzled over how to set up the tax info on our Company Information. We do not sell anything. We are a tax exempt 501(c)3 organization. We receive donations for supporting humanitarian and religious projects in Peru, but we will use the sales functionality to handle donations (as if they were sales). So, to post a sales invoice or post to the G/L we have to have some info in the tax section of the Company Information card. Specifically, we get an error saying that we must either add a Tax Exemption Number or a GLN. We don't have either. What info in the tax section are we actually required to supply to make it work? Any suggestions on solving the particular error?


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    Marco Mels Profile Picture
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    Hello,

    If you do not get further response from the community, feel free to raise it to Microsoft and CSS engineer may ask product manager via internal ticket.

    Thanks.

  • AriaConsulting Profile Picture
    2 on at

    Hi Atahualpa,

    Have you setup the following:

    • Tax groups (obviously specifically non-taxable in your case)
    • Tax Jurisdictions
    • Tax Details
    • Tax Areas
    • Tax Liable switch for the "customers" (contributors)

    If so, can you share screenshots?  That would help in potentially figuring something out for you.

  • Atahualpa Profile Picture
    113 on at

    Thanks, for your questions. I'm not at all sure that I have these setup correctly, but here are the screenshots. I have the Tax Liable switch off on the customer card. I'm not clear on what I need to set up on the company card, customer cards, and vendor cards. For our company card I have clarified tax details, jurisdictions, etc. Do I need to assign each customer ("donor") to a tax group according to their mailing address?

    Thanks!

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    Community Member Profile Picture
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    Hello,

    Go to your Company Information page and fill in the field : Federal ID No., as you are a US based company collecting Sales Tax.

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    Hope this helps.

    Thanks,

    Steve

  • Atahualpa Profile Picture
    113 on at

    Thanks. I already have our Tax ID number entered. Also a non-profit we don't collect sales tax.

    I'm thinking that my problem has been in imagining that I should use a sales order/sale invoice to process donations received. That now seems to me unnecessary. I think I am much better off just processing donations through the cash receipt journal as a simple "payment" in the document type.

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