How to record purchase taxes other than GST and PST

Created on 03 February 2021 | Last modified on 01 May 2026

Summary

How to record purchase taxes other than GST, HST, PST, or QST in Sage Accounting.

Sage Accounting doesn’t support purchase taxes other than GST, HST, PST, or QST.

Use a workaround to record these additional taxes as separate line items.

Follow these steps to record unsupported purchase taxes.

Enter the purchase expense using the correct expense account and GST or GST and PST as the tax rate.
Add another line item for each unsupported tax.
Select a ledger account used to track tax expenses.
Enter the tax type in the Description field and select No Tax as the tax rate.
Repeat these steps for each additional tax you need to record.

Complete related tax returns manually to recover these taxes.
Use this workaround only to record purchase transactions.