Blog Post
Let's talk about our favorite topic. Taxes! Sales taxes to be specific. This guide will help explain how Commerce can be used to itemize the sales taxes charged on your purchases/expenses.
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US Customers
The majority of accounting programs don't support separating sales tax from your expenses for US customers. If your Delta Airlines ticket has $65.38 of sales tax, you'll be exporting the entirety of that transaction to the appropriate "Travel" expense account.
International Customers
However, most accounting programs do allow for the itemized accounting of sales tax on expenses for International customers. Commerce can itemize the sales tax during export, giving you the ability to allocate the sales taxes charged to it's own category.