Changing tax rates

NOTE: This information has been updated and added to the documentation under Taxes Setup.    Refer to that for current information.

Original article:

We're often asked how to change the tax rate, e.g. when a new sales tax rate is taking effect.  Unfortunately the answer isn't always simple, and it depends on how you're doing accounting and how or when you want the new tax to apply.

Do you want the new tax to apply to any reservation that arrives on a set date (even if they already paid a deposit or you already entered their charges, so it adds the extra tax when they check in)?  In this case, you would need to add a separate category for the new tax and set up a complete separate set of Rate definitions, similar to this article:

http://campgroundmaster.com/news/canadashsttaxchange.html

Or, do you want it to apply only to charges you enter after a set date, not to any charges you may have already entered?  In that case it's very easy, just change the Tax rate in Campground Master on that date so it applies to all future entries.

http://campgroundmaster.com/help/taxessetup.html

Note that if you're using Auto-rates, this would cause previously-charged reservations to be recalculate at the new tax rate if you do anything with them (including just checking them in), so you would need to disable automatic recalculation for those that should not be affected (in Reservation Details).