Shopify Taxes and Balance

Can you explain how we can set up (and the benefits) of Shopify Balance and Taxes?

Shopify Balance offers a feature that allows merchants to automatically set aside sales tax in a dedicated account to simplify tax management and improve cash flow. When enabled, Shopify automatically moves sales tax collected from Shopify Payments and Shop Pay Installments payouts to a separate Balance account, ensuring funds are available when it is time to remit them to tax authorities.

How to Set Up:

  1. Go to your Shopify Admin > Finance > Balance.

  2. Click Settings.

  3. Under the “Sales tax account” section, click Turn on.

  4. Follow the prompts to create or select a dedicated, separate Balance account for your taxes.

Ensure that once you do so, you update your tax filing provider to use this account for your remittances.

More information is available here