When does tax calculate in Avalara AvaTax for QuickBooks?

Overview

You need to recalculate tax on a transaction in QuickBooks and want to know how to trigger an update on the invoice.

Environment

Intuit Quickbooks

Resolution

• Make a change to the invoice (add a note, change a price, or change a quantity)
• Save
• Change invoice back to previous
• Save

Note​: Clicking "Save", "Save and Close" and "Save and New" will trigger a tax call. If tax has already been calculated on an invoice, we will not make another tax call upon saving unless something on the document has changed since the original calculation.