We have a new out-of-state vendor who is a committed cost on a job.  The vendor tells us they do not have nexus in the state of NJ (where we are located).  So we will need to pay use tax to the state, and bill our client for the use tax.  But, we do not want the tax to be a part of the commitment as the vendor will not be charging us for it.  Any way I try to enter it, the tax changes the commitment amount, increasing the commitment.

Compounding this issue is the fact that SOME of the work they are doing is taxable according to NJ, but not all of it is.  So when they send us an invoice, we will need to input it into AP as partially use-taxable and partially exempt from tax.

When we set up the vendor, we identified the tax as tax liability only.

We then tested entering an AP invoice.  When entering a generic invoice with no associated commitment, we got the tax liability amount to default in to the entry grid.  Good.

However, when we entered an AP Invoice and selected the commitment, the tax group column pre-filled with the tax on the commitment, which is "exempt".  We were not able to override the tax group and therefore the tax liability did not calculate.  Bad.

Please help, we can not be the only company to have run into this issue.  FYI - we are on Sage CRE 300 v. 15.1 and use AP, AR, BL, CM, CN, GL, JC, PR, and PJ.  Thank you!