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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Cookbook

You're reading from   Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Cookbook Over 100 powerful and effective recipes to help you solve real-world Dynamics GP problems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
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ISBN-13 9781786463401
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ian Grieve Ian Grieve
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Personalizing Dynamics GP FREE CHAPTER 2. Organizing Dynamics GP 3. Automating Dynamics GP 4. Leveraging New and Updated Features in Dynamics GP 5. Exposing Hidden Features in Dynamics GP 6. Improving Dynamics GP with Hacks 7. Preventing Errors in Dynamics GP 8. Harnessing the Power of SmartLists 9. SmartList Designer 10. Connecting Dynamics GP to Microsoft Office 2016 11. Maintaining Dynamics GP 12. Extending Dynamics GP Professional Services Tools Library 13. Modern Business Intelligence for Dynamics GP Index

Improving information with Tax Dates in transactions


When working with sales tax and use tax it is often useful to set the date of a transaction for tax purposes. For example, assume a February invoice subject to use tax arrives in March. This is after February has been closed and use tax submitted. The invoice still needs to be dated in February to age properly but it needs to appear on tax reports for March to ensure that the taxing authority is paid properly. Dynamics GP includes functionality to support this but it needs to be turned on. The Tax Date functionality was originally designed to support Value Added Tax (VAT) which is popular in Europe and other parts of the world. Firms with this requirement will need to activate tax dates as well. In this recipe, we'll look at how to activate and use tax dates.

Getting ready

Prior to using Tax Dates, they need to be activated. To activate Tax Dates, follow these steps:

  1. Select Administration from the Navigation list. On the Administration area...

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