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View Full Version : For products requiring excise tax, how do you accept deposits prior to final product?


Buebe
Feb 11, 2014, 08:56 AM
When selling products that require quarterly excise tax payments, how do you accept payments without paying taxes on the product until it is actually completed and shipped? In other words, I want to avoid paying taxes in quarter 1 if the product will not fully be paid for until quarter 2 or 3 and shipped then.

AtlantaTaxExpert
Feb 11, 2014, 09:41 AM
You do NOT.

Most businesses operate on the "cash" method of accounting, which mean the payment is recorded when made, so that is when the taxes are due.