Tax Type For Xero Configuration

By configuring the correct tax type within ReRum to match with Xero, this will allow the correct tax to be recognised when transferring sales invoices and purchase invoices onto Xero.

PMS Set Up

To access Tax Codes you will need to open Admin → Finance → Tax Codes.

Open

You will then open up all the tax codes created within your system. Within each of these codes they will include a Xero Tax Type. 

Open

As you can see here, a new field has been added called Xero Tax Type. This can be configured for each code. 

Xero Tax Types can vary for different tax codes and countries.

The U.K's standards are

These are the basic ones that can be used however with the link below, you can choose different tax types and use tax types from other countries. 
https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/types#TaxTypes

This is an example of how it would look. Once this is done, click update. 

Create Custom Tax Codes

You may need to create custom tax codes to support tax % which may not exist on the Xero Platform. To do this, you will need to create the new tax code in Xero and then navigate to set this up in the PMS as shown above.

Xero Set Up -

Navigate to Accounting → Advanced → Tax Rates

Right click and Inspect your custom Tax Code, within the inspector tool, you will be able to see tax-rate-CODE, copy this code into the PMS “Xero tax type” field and this will map these codes together.

This is commonly used to set up the 4% tax rate within the UK for serviced apartment vat rates.