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Can a project allocation create a new transaction + GL Entry using the Project Default Subaccount?

  • January 13, 2026
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I have a client who pays sales tax on Purchases.  Most of their costs flow into projects.  We cannot get the journal entry lines for the Taxes to honor the project default cost subaccount, so the tax GL lines always go to subaccount “00”.

Is there a way to use a project allocation to create a new project transaction and journal entry that will credit the “00” subaccount in the original transaction, and debit the Project’s default cost subaccount?  That’s the only way that I can think to solve this problem out of the box.

I have tried a few allocation rule setups and they all fail, so before I go any further I’d like to know if this is even possible.  Or maybe there is something I’m missing in another area.

Thank you!

John J

Best answer by jjones36

Update:  We actually figured this out. In the Taxes form, we needed to uncheck the Use Tax Expense Account box.  When we did this, the journal entry line for the tax used the Project’s default subaccount.

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  • January 13, 2026

Update:  We actually figured this out. In the Taxes form, we needed to uncheck the Use Tax Expense Account box.  When we did this, the journal entry line for the tax used the Project’s default subaccount.


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  • January 13, 2026

Thank you for sharing your solution with the community ​@jjones36!