sales tax, tax, reports

ssmith42
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I can't find a way to see the total amount of sales tax collected.  There is every kind of report and information available.  Heck, I can even print and pay my shipping through PayPal.  It's awesome.  That said, I find it hard to believe that the designers of Paypal would forget such an important business reporting tool if they profess to be a business tool. 

 

If anyone knows where I should click to see this simple calculation, please let me know.  I am sure that one can go through some convoluted process of downloading some huge report and poke through it adding up each field, but seriously, how could there not be a simple column for sales tax collected within a date ranges?  Also, the Square DOES offer this feature (DUH  . . .  Of course they do.  Who wouldn't?) But they DON'T have the shipping label and payment feature.  If Square ever implements the shipping/postage management feature it's BYE BYE PayPal unless they add this ever so important and seemingly simple feature that shows sales tax collected.

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Snow-Cat
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Here's one work around, you can download or export your Transaction History:

* Login to your account.
* Click "Activity"
* Under "Simple" "Detailed"
* Click on "Statements"
* Click on "Activity export"
* Select "Custom Date Range"
* Select your "From" and "To" Dates
* Under File Types for Download - Select "Comma Delimited - All Activity"
* Click "Download History"


What this process does is export your history to a CSV file, you can then use an app like Excel to sort, view, create and print your own reports.

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Snow-Cat
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Here's one work around, you can download or export your Transaction History:

* Login to your account.
* Click "Activity"
* Under "Simple" "Detailed"
* Click on "Statements"
* Click on "Activity export"
* Select "Custom Date Range"
* Select your "From" and "To" Dates
* Under File Types for Download - Select "Comma Delimited - All Activity"
* Click "Download History"


What this process does is export your history to a CSV file, you can then use an app like Excel to sort, view, create and print your own reports.

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Whac-A-Mole
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Ebay may show a sales tax total,not sure.

Do you know how hard it is to offer shipping label,Barnes and Noble ,the last time I sold a book,does not have this feature,I can only print a packing slip?

And Barnes and Noble has an ecommerce site for at least 10 years.

why,I dont know,but AMZN,ETSY,EBAY have,but not Bonanza or Ecrater or Rubylane and a host of other sites.

But I keep a manual sales ledger,when I record a sale,I write down the sales tax collected,since it amounts to no more than 2%,I add them up every month and after 12 months,I have the total for tax reporting .

Do you have a sales ledger,if not,why not and it will make life much easier when IRS knocks on your door. 

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