I understand the pay sales tax function but it eats up a lot of time unnecessarily. The Sales Tax Liability report could be useful but requires deep drill downs to get to the actual sales for reviewing. The drill down process loses the previous pages and the report must be regenerated.

Instead I export the invoices for the month and sort by tax authorities then derive totals for the state return.

That is ok, it doesn't take much time and is accurate and the base data is right there to be seen.

Then if I don't use the "Accountant>Tax" payments function we keep accruing tax liability which throws the books off, particularly in the balance sheet which the bank seems to live by.

*I would like to create expenses for state tax payments (which are one ACH expense) entering the amounts to match the tax return, applying some amounts to a expense account for our excise tax, and some amounts to a sales tax liability account. The state makes one ACH pull so I want the transaction to cover everything.

Yes I can make sales tax adjustment entries but sales tax (which has excise tax attached in Washington state) is now unnecessarily cumbersome for the sake of automation.

But the automation must be verified and adjusted every time. I want to do athe simpler way.