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Configure Tax Code Settings

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Objective

To turn Procore's tax codes feature ON and configure its company level settings. 

Background

In Procore's Project Financials tools, you can set up one or more tax codes in Procore's Company Admin tool. This provides your Project Financials users with the ability to apply a specific tax to line items on a Bill of Quantities (BOQ). To turn this feature ON in your company's Procore account, your company's Procore Administrator uses the steps below.

After creating your company's tax codes, project users can apply the code to the BOQ line items on a contract, funding, variation and payment application. To calculate the tax amount, Procore applies the tax code to the line item amount, including financial markup, to determine the tax amount. Procore then adds the tax amounts from each line item to determine an unrounded sum and then rounds that sum to determine the total tax amount.

Tax code fields appear in the bill of quantities and on PDF forms. You can also see the total tax amount on these PDF forms, broken out from the grand total. In addition, you can set up multiple tax codes that can be applied to line items that require different tax rates.

Payment Application PDFs also reflect the tax. The Summary page of the PDF will add:

  • Tax applicable to this payment
  • Current payment due including tax

Things to Consider

  • Required User Permissions:
    • 'Admin' level permssions on the Company Admin tool 
  • Additional Information:
    • Enabling the tax codes feature in the Company Admin tool makes the feature available on all of your company's Procore projects. By default, tax codes are disabled on projects. 
    • To enable the feature on a per-project basis, see Update General Project Information.
  • Limitations:
    • You create create one (1) tax type. Multiple tax types are NOT permitted. 
  • For companies using the icon-erp-synced2.png ERP Integrations tool: Show/Hide  
    • Integration by Procore: Viewpoint® Spectrum®
      • The connector does not currently support syncing tax codes or groups. 
    • Integration by Ryvit: Viewpoint® Vista™
      • The connector does not currently support syncing tax codes or groups. 
    • QuickBooks® Desktop
      • The connector does not currently support syncing tax codes or groups. 
    • Sage 100 Contractor®
      • The connector does not currently support syncing tax codes or groups. 
    • Sage 300 CRE®

Steps

Complete these steps:

  1. Enable the Tax Codes Setting
  2. Set the Tax Type
  3. Add a Tax Code

Enable the Tax Codes Setting

  1. Navigate to the company's Admin tool.
  2. Under Tool Settings, click Tax Codes.
  3. Under Tax Code Settings, place a checkmark in the Use Tax Codes box.
  4. Click Save.

Set the Tax Type

  1. Navigate to the company's Admin tool.
  2. Under Tool Settings, click Tax Codes.
  3. Under Tax Type, you can create one (1) tax type as follows:
    • Name. Enter the name of the tax type. For example, enter GST (for Goods & Services Tax) or VAT (for Value-Added Tax). After you click Save, the name you enter here is updated on the [Tax Type] in the Tax Codes section of this page.
    • Description. Enter a descriptive name for the tax type. Typically, the name of the tax type will be abbreviated, so the description field lets you provide more information about the tax type. For example, enter Goods & Services Tax or Value-Added Tax. 
  4. Click Add icon-add.png.
  5. If you want to delete the tax type, click the red X button icon-delete-x.png next to the tax type line item.

Add a Tax Code

  1. Navigate to the company's Admin tool.
  2. Under Tool Settings, click Tax Codes.
  3. Under Tax Codes, add a tax code as follows:
    • Code. Enter the name of the tax code in the box. Type the name as you want it to appear in the 'Tax Code' field in the Variations, Commitments and Main Contract tools. 
    • Description. Enter a brief description of the tax code. Typically, the name of the tax code is abbreviated, so use this field to provide more detail for end users about the tax code.
    • [Tax Type]. The name of this field matches the name you assigned to the tax type. Enter a number in this field, which will be the percentage rate used for this tax code.
    • Default. Mark this tickbox to set it as the default tax code. This tax code will be selected by default in the Tax Code field on main contracts, commitments and variations.
  4. Click Add icon-add.png next to the line item to save the tax code.
  5. If you want to archive a tax code, click the red X button icon-delete-x.png next to the tax code line item. You cannot archive tax codes that are currently assigned to a contract or variation line item.

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