Adding tax types to database tables

A tax type corresponds to a kind of tax, for example, to a city sales tax. You can specify up to 27 different tax types. The requirements of your financial system determine how many tax types you can specify.

Before you begin

Administration mode must be turned on before you can configure the database.

About this task

When you add tax types to the database, you specify the number of tax types, you configure the database, and then you update the database tables for your organizations. If you add more than five tax types, and configure and update the database tables, all of the tax types display in the Tax Options window of the Organizations application.

Procedure

  1. In the Database Configuration application, select the Tax Types > Add/Modify Tax Types action.
  2. In the Number of Tax Types field, specify the number of tax types that you want to use.
  3. Click OK.
  4. Select the Apply Configuration Changes action to configure the database.
  5. In the Database Configuration window, provide the required information, then click OK.
  6. Select the Tax Types > Update Tax Data action to update the database tables with the changes.


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