Yeah,
Absolutely jacked that a business owner has to be a collection agent for the state. Sales tax. Payroll withholding/reporting.
, but obviously need to know which side of the line they are on when entering it.
It’s knowing the lines that drive me nuts. One client has three adjoining parcels. Two are in city limits and their house isn’t. I did manage to get an address spreadsheet from the city when they enacted a tree removal ordinance. Basically told the city how in the heck am I suppose to comply.. It’s not uncommon when I ask the client to get a blank stare ‘well, I donno actually we get billed for city water that’s all I know’ (city water goes outside limits a fair bit).Absolutely jacked that a business owner has to be a collection agent for the state. Sales tax. Payroll withholding/reporting.
There's only one local place that has a tax additional to the County...otherwise its just county by County. I have each listed in Jobber so when I create a client, they are assigned a tax rate. You can do that with each city rate as well (I'd just include them all in one...XYZ City+ABC County total sales tax = 11.3%
I assume so, but not all states do the sales tax thing.
Do different counties have different rates?
It's amazing to me how many people don't know stuff like this. Do a quick job for someone, they'll pull out a checkbook to pay and to quickly get them the total I'll say "your county sales tax is 6.75%, right" and most have no idea...
There is one township north of me thats categorized as an urban development zone or something to that affect I could choose the lower tax rate for when I work in that area, which is awefully rare. i Could set it to default nj sales tax just click it as I’m forming the proposal as I move down the list. I should just switch it to default to that . i guess they leave it an option in case you wanna bill anywhere Worldwide.
There's gotta be an easy way to do that with GIS. I haven't tried, but apparently you can add layers to Google Maps. Get the layer from the city and put it into maps, then pull that up.
It's not just world wide...like @evo is saying different locations are different rate. In Ohio is (mostly) by county. So I need a rate for each. Even when 2 county have the same rate I need to have the separate for reporting purposes. Point being I try to stay pretty local, but still need several different tax rates.There is one township north of me thats categorized as an urban development zone or something to that affect I could choose the lower tax rate for when I work in that area, which is awefully rare. i Could set it to default nj sales tax just click it as I’m forming the proposal as I move down the list. I should just switch it to default to that . i guess they leave it an option in case you wanna bill anywhere Worldwide.
As a business owner, I don't love it...but I honestly think sales tax is the best way to collect tax revenue. Here, housing and food isn't taxed. Don't think medical care is either. (neither are "professional services like attorneys or accountants...the cynic in me takes notes of who wrote the laws - but that's another discussion). Basically necessities aren't taxed ..so any sales tax you pay is "optional " - meaning if you cannot afford it, don't buy stuff that is taxed. There's still income and property tax, but since revenues are divided among different taxes, none are outrageous.
Dor.wa.gov has a Sales Tax Lookup by address link on the homepage, fwiw
A whole back I got it to work with google earth. They don’t have the property line map anymore. I really need to learn GIS and pay for that too
Do you mean for switching over or just daily record keeping? I've had the Quick books Online integration since I started with Jobber and it works really well.
Quickbooks payroll is expensive, if youre down with some manual work look at gusto
Gusto was an epic pain in the ass to get set up, and their customer service wasn’t much better. Once dialed in its pretty smooth, Washington isn’t the easiest with payroll taxes.
