Sales Tax Payable

Sales Tax Payable (alternatively known as Sales Tax Payable account) is a financial account in the ledger that accumulates the amount of sales tax owed. It has a credit balance.

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Sales Tax Payable account. An account in the general ledger that accumulates the amount of sales tax owed. It has a credit balance.

Accounting (alternatively known as accountancy) is management of financial data, information, and knowledge about financial transactions of legal entities. Accountancy tends to include bookkeeping and, depending on a particilar enterprise, may also include quatitative analysis of financial data in the bookkeeping system and/or business intelligence.