Getting Sales Tax Filing List into Excel
Preparing a List in Excel
- Run your Sales Tax Filing List for your filing month.
- Remove the Tax Code grouping in the top left corner. Move your mouse over the box and click the X.
- Save your Sales Tax Filing List as a csv file.
- Open your saved csv file in Excel.
Preparing a List in Excel
- Select Column L – Tax
- Select Text to Columns in Data Tools within the Data tab of Excel.
- Select Finish
- Rename Columns Headers on Row 1 to the following:
- Column L should be renamed to State
- Column M should be renamed to State Code
- Column N should be renamed to County
- Column O should be renamed to County Code
- Column P should be renamed to City
- Column Q should be renamed to City Code
- Column R should be renamed to Locality Code
- The columns are ready to be sorted to provide totals for each applicable code
- If there is an NA in any of the cells, this means there is no reportable code for that jurisdiction.
- To prepare the next state return, return to Step 1 in this section to filter to the appropriate state.