Sales taxes are going up all over the country. Updating our sales tax in QB 2009 was a time-consuming ordeal, and the help system is useless on this issue.

When you update your sales tax, you can't update the current sales tax item because you're risking having your previous invoices recalculated. You have to create a new one. But QB by default will link the new sales tax item to the Franchise Tax Board for California, or the state tax agency in your state.

Unless you substitute the Franchise Tax Board with an account in your own Chart of Accounts, you can't identify the sales tax amount on your future invoices with a label, like "Sales Tax." In other words, the sales tax amount will print below the other lines on the invoice with no label.

Madness. Crazymaking. Sure wish my business could find a better alternative to Quickbooks.