Second, it just took me 2 hours of time away from my family to submit my NC sales tax this quarter.
What I have to do...
- I have to find out where they put the "new" link on their website to file Sales Tax online. They like switch it around just to keep us on our toes.
- I have to jump through hoops to login on multiple sales tax login pages on their NON-Intuitive pages
- I have to download my sales report from Paypal
- I have to do a search and get a listing of all the people I sold itesm to in North Carolina.
- I have to look up each NC sale individually and find out the a) city they live in b) Gross Sales and the c) Sales Tax collected
- I have to google the city (that each customer is from) to find out what COUNTY they live in.
- I have to figure out which counties require me to pay 2% and which counties require me to pay 2.25% and remember that Mecklenberg county also tacts on an additional transit tax of .5%
- I have to add up all the counties with 2% sales tax and enter that amount
- I have to add up all the counties with a 2.25% sales tax and enter that amount
- I have to individually type in the sales tax collected for each county in North Carolina next to the name of the county and be sure I put it in the correct column (either 2% or 2.25%)
- Then I have to push NEXT and pray I didn't "mess" something up.
- If I everything adds up (that has never happened) then to pay my sales tax online I have to pay an additional fee (I forget what they called it - "convenience" I think?) so that I can submit my numbers and pay it online.
And THAT is how you pay your Quarterly North Carolina Sales Tax.
Ok. Thanks for letting me vent. I can now look forward to my evening on March 31 2012 when I get to do this all over again.
