Preparing Sales and Use Tax Returns:
(updated for WA)

  - Review all pending online banking transactions (CC and Chase)
  - Enter any missing deposits, sales receipts that go into Chase, invoices, etc.
    - This might be a good time to organize taxable sales records.
  - Review CC register and make sure vendor/account are correct for all transactions
  - Reconcile CC (using paper statements)
    - This is good to do 1st because CC payments need to match downloaded bank acct transactions
  - Reconcile bank account
  - Export all Paypal transactions for the quarter to Excel format.
  - Add formulas for Reserve and Total Columns.  
  - Enter sales receipts for Paypal transactions
  - Match/add Paypal downloaded transactions
  - Verify balance every 1+ calendar days by taking balance from all transactions report and adding reserve as of that date
    - Add missing USPS transactions (grrrrr)
  - Go back and check that CC and bank are still ok (usually I mess up the acct transfers somehow)
  - Make sure ending balances of accounts look sane as of last day of the quarter
  - Run Memorized Reports for Sales and Use Tax (all of these use data from the last quarter)
    - Save each of these to an Excel spreadsheet
      - Total Sales (total sales.xls) - Manufacturing Gross Amount
      - <del>Taxable Sales Detail (taxable sales.xls) - broken with latest QBOE?</del>
      - Sales Tax Liability Report - used to calculate retailing interstate deduction
      - Transaction List by Date - save this to calc use tax
      - Wholesale Sales by Customer Detail - Wholesale Gross Amount
      - Freight with Taxable Amounts - use for manufacturing interstate shipping deduction
  - To calculate use tax, open transaction list and total only taxable purchases
    - Need to use abs() to keep same sign for CC and bank charges
  - Go to [[http://dor.wa.gov/Content/Home/Default.aspx]] and complete return
    - For now enter all taxable sales as local sales for REDMOND RTA (1724) until I can figure out what to do about destination based tax rates.