Overview

Review all the GST transactions for a period (see GST information)

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The tax amount in a journal does not have a sign. The tax is considered to have the same sign as the total of the journal line on which it appears.

Calculated Totals

Listing the journals that are included in a given total

 Many Many of the totals have an exclamation mark (!) button to their right. Clicking this button will produce a list of the journals totals by journal of amounts and tax included in this total. The list is displayed on the Journal List (Details) tab. The totals for the list of amount, tax and overall total is shown at the top right of the BAS Statement tab.

G1 Total sales (incl GST)

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The total in the second column is the total of (debit - credit) for all journal lines with a GIM tax type and not to GST Paid or Withholding Tax.

Note that this shows the total value of the taxable imports, not the amount of tax paid on them. The tax paid is included in the GST Paid total.

List Journals for button

Use this button to display diagnostic lists of journals that might be in error. These reports show the journal reference number, date and description, the debtor or creditor ID (search code) and name, the journal amount and the journal tax amount, as well as other fields relevant to the particular list. NOTE that with the exception of the 'Taxable non-capital purchases' list the lists are not restricted to the selected period.

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Lists taxable non-capital purchases that are included in the GST Explorer totals. These purchases are not shown in a separate total on the form but they are added to G14 to make G11 and added to G10 to make G17.

 Lists amount and tax totals by journal of purchases (see above G11 for a definition of purchases as it applies here) with a tax type of GST.

Sales with tax type not GST, FRE or EXP

Lists journal lines that have a tax type other than GST, FRE or EXP and , a non-zero tax amount and are in a journal that has a line to Trade Debtors and/or or tax amountGST Collected. The Amount, Tax and Tax type columns show the values of the line, not the journal.

Journal line tax not amount / tax rate

Lists journal lines that have a non-zero tax amount where the difference between the tax amount and the Amount divided by 10 is greater than $0.03. The Tax type, Amount and Tax columns show the values for the journal line. Calc Tax shows the Amount divided by 10 and Difference the difference between the Tax and Calc Tax columns. The amounts are absolute.

Sales tax vs tax collected

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mismatch

Lists journals with a line to Trade Debtors where the total journal tax amount differs from the amount debited or credited to the GST Paid or GST Collected GL accounts. The Amount and Tax columns show the totals for the journal. The PaidCollected Collected column shows the amount credited or debited to the GST Paid or GST Collected GL accounts. The amounts are absoluteDifference column shows the difference between Tax and Collected.

Journal line tax not amount / tax rate

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Purchase tax vs tax paid mismatch

Lists creditor invoice, creditor credit note or creditor prompt payment journals where the total journal tax amount differs from the amount debited or credited to GST Paid. The Amount and Tax columns show the values totals for the journal line. Calc Tax shows the Amount divided by 10 and Difference The Paid column shows the amount credited or debited to GST Paid. The Difference column shows the difference between the Tax and Calc Tax columns. The amounts are absolute.Collected.

Journal line tax amount but not GST or CAP

 Lists journal lines with a non-zero tax amount and a tax type other than GST or CAP. The Amount, Tax and Tax type columns show the values of the line, not the journal.

Journal List (Details) tab

This tab shows lists of journals as selected using the asterisk button beside a figure or the List Journals for ... button on the BAS Statement tab.