To whom this may concern, 

My name is Charles Boudreau from TBPK, a Zoho Advisor based out of Montreal, Canada. 

We currently have a specific issue relating to an importer.

For each imports, there are 2 transactions relating to the payments of the goods ;

• Payment of the supplier ; 
• Payment of sales taxes directly to the government. These taxes are then credits for the periodical reports.  

This means that they are transactions where he only pays sales taxes on goods he imported which mean that the totality of the payment is to be applied on sales tax (GST on imported goods).

What is the easiest way to account for these transactions as :

• We cannot apply a amount to sales tax account through a manual entry ;
• We cannot create a GST tax at a rate of 100% as it will apply half of that payment to an non tax expense account (ex. We tried to create a tax called “GST paid on imports” with a rate of 100% but for a payment of 40$, only half is applied to the tax.)

I would like to avoid creating separate balance sheet accounts for these disbursements.

Please advise as soon as possible. 

Thank you

Charles Boudreau

cboudreau@tbpk.ca 

(514)575-0348