TAXES MANUAL

Each country has it's specific charges related to taxes, service charges, and local city taxes. These taxes can be sales-related or purchase related. They can be an amount or a percentage.

Important Note: This is a "All Property" program always.

This means to add, edit, delete are all ALL property.

To Add

1. Click the button "+ Add new Record", a new box will populate.  By default, E-hors will show the country based on property settings. Enter the following details.

• • Tax Description: e.g. "VAT", SST", GST", "EWT", LT"
  • Invoice Indicator: The code that represents the tax, this tax code is dictated by the local tax authorities.  See the example below

1. • Description On Invoice: The text entered in this field will appear on the Tax invoice.
   • Calculation: Select if the type of tax you are adding is based on percentage or amount. An amount cannot be per pax and per room.
   • Guest tax: This is only relevant for taxes like the tourism tax which is per room and heritage tax. This is an additional tax imposed by the government on top of the output tax. Select if the guest tax is by room or pax and if it's by night or by Stay.
   • Sales or Purchase: Select if it's a sales tax or a purchase tax.
   • Service Type: Select if it's a Vat, Service charge, local tax, or withholding tax.
   • Ledger/Group/Account: The taxes need to be linked to the chart of account. For this purpose, you select the Account Ledger/group and account.
2. Click submit when done. 

To Edit

Note: Be careful when editing any type of taxes, as this might affect recipe, items, BDI, Accommodation, & rate code.

1. Click the "Edit" icon and start editing the data.
2. Click "submit" when done.
3. Click "Cancel" if you don't want to make any changes.

To Delete (deactivate)

Note Double-check first before deactivating any taxes, as this might affect recipe, items, BDI, Accommodation, & rate code.

1. Select which tax you want to deactivate, click the "deactivate" button.
2. Are you sure you want to de-activate this record?
3. Click "OK".

To Re-activate

1. UN-tick the tick box “hide inactive” to show the inactive records.
2. Select which tax you want to re-activate, click the "re-activate" button.
3. Are you sure you want to re-activate this record?
4. Click "OK".