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Record a PST remittance to the province
If your business collects PST (British Columbia, Saskatchewan, or Manitoba's RST), every sale parks the tax you charged in a PST Payable account. The payment you later send the province settles that balance. It is not an expense: booking it as one overstates your costs while the books keep saying you still owe the province.
Record the remittance from the bank line
When the withdrawal is in Ledger › Banking › Transactions:
- Open the withdrawal's details with the arrow at the right of the row, and look under "Not what it looks like?".
- Choose Tax payment, then pick PST as the regime. There is no period to pick: PST is filed with the province on its own schedule, not through a TALISK_HQ filing period.
- Confirm with OK. TALISK_HQ posts one entry that reduces PST Payable and takes the money out of the account the line belongs to. The line shows a "PST remitted" pill and stops reading as uncategorized.
The amount remitted is the line's own amount. TALISK_HQ does not check it against the PST balance, because a small over- or under-payment against the running balance is normal between filings; the Tax Summary keeps showing the live balance either way.
Undo
Open the marked line's details and choose Undo PST remittance. The entry is removed and the PST owing shows on your books again.
How this differs from GST/HST
GST/HST payments settle a filed period, so their action asks which filing the payment belongs to, and TALISK_HQ connects it to the payment recorded on the Tax Summary if there is one. PST has none of that machinery on purpose: there is no return to freeze and no refund receivable, so the remittance is simply a payment against the liability. The Tax Summary's PST section reports what you collected in the period so you can fill in the province's return; the number it reports is not reduced by the remittance you send afterwards.