Instructions for taxing Florida liquor surcharge
If you collect liquor surcharge separately when charging a customer, it is necessary to pay sales tax on the liquor surcharge collected and report in net sales. For example, if a restaurant decides to itemize overhead expenses, that total would be taxable. For example, if a restaurant charges $2.50 for a drink and added $0.50 for electricity, the total sales price of $3.00 is taxable. This is the same as the surcharge, since the surcharge is not a tax. It is not a liability to the customer, but part of the overhead of the restaurant. This only applies to Aloha users who charge surcharge separately. If you already include the surcharge in the price of drink, it is already being taxed.
Here is how to make sure Aloha is charging tax on the liquor surcharge.
Go to Aloha, Maintenance, Menu, Surcharges. For each quantity or value of surcharge, go to the drop down box that assigns tax and enter the correct sales tax. Save and refresh data or let end of day refresh for the next day.
On the guest check, the surcharge still appears below the sales tax. There is no setting to change that, but if you calculate the drink price plus surcharge tax rate, it will calculate correctly. Important Note: The following information is intended only to inform and not to be a substitute for the reader's seeking legal or accounting counsel. Any information given here should be examined by the reader's attorneys or accountants as to such information's applicability. |
