Other Self-Employment Income, Sales tax snaffu

[ukarlauren]

We had a bit of a situation this year and last year in regards to our sales tax for our small business. What ended up happening is we ended up settling up in 2024. The sales tax we collected in 2023. So when entering my total income do I still leave out the sales tax or do I have to include it as we didn't pay the sales tax to the state until 2024. As far as the state tax website shows, other than a couple penalties it shows the tax was billed for each month and paid for each month rather than saying paid this year. Thank you for your time

[tagteam]

Many treat state sales taxes as pass throughs rather than reporting them as income and the payout to the state as deductions.