MyWorks makes it as easy as possible to handle accounting for the sales tax collected in Shopify orders from any country where you choose to collect sales tax in Shopify. If you're in the United States, see our doc on this specifically here.
Setting up sales tax
MyWorks allows you to easily map your Shopify sales tax rates to the sales tax rates present in your QuickBooks company. There are two areas in MyWorks to manage this.
Settings > Tax
In MyWorks Sync > Settings > Tax, you can set your QuickBooks tax rate that should be applied to items that are not taxed in your Shopify orders. This is normally a tax rate named “Out of Scope”, or “Exempt”.
Map > Tax Rates
In MyWorks Sync > Map > Tax Rates, you can view your Shopify tax rates and select the matching QuickBooks tax rate for each country that you charge tax in.
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Syncing tax as a line item
Alternatively, if you do not wish to use the sales tax area in QuickBooks, and/or have sales tax turned off in QuickBooks, you can sync tax as a line item in the QuickBooks order instead.
You can enable the setting to sync sales tax as a line item in MyWorks Sync > Settings > Tax, and the Sales Tax collected in the Shopify order will instead be passed into a line item in QuickBooks Online. This item can be created in your QuickBooks and assigned to your "Sales Tax Payable" account.
