Common Factors for QuickBooks POS Sales Tax Error 3180

You might be getting QuickBooks error message 3180 due to the following possible factors –

The sales tax item in your QuickBooks Desktop is not matching or link to any of the vendors in the list.

There is an incorrect account mapping, or a paid out is created in the sale tax payable account.

The payment item is either damaged or incorrect, and you need to modify it correctly. Your system’s antivirus or 3rdparty application is blocking QuickBooks from using the point-of-sale feature.

A wrong QuickBooks Desktop account is being used to map accounts in QuickBooks

POS, leading to mapping issues in the tax line.

Solution 1 – Assign the Vendor to the Tax Item and Modify the Tax Preference

You need to modify the tax preferences and assign the vendor to the tax item to fix error code 3180 in QuickBooks.

Open QuickBooks Desktopand go to the Lists section to click on Item List.

Choose the Include Inactiveoption and with the help of Type Header, sort the list.

Check that all sales tax items have a tax agency attached to them and open the QuickBooks Point of Sale

Go to the Filetab and choose the Preferences option to click on Company.

From the Financialssection, select Accounts and go to the Basic and Advanced

Check that the QB Sales Tax Payableis only listed in the Sales Tax section, and if it’s not, change it and run the financial exchange again to see the status of the 3180 error code.

Solution 2 – Check the Incomplete Receipts and Reverse the Receipts Paid out

to the Sales

You need to reverse the receipts paid out to sales in the QuickBooks point-of-sales app.

Open QuickBooks Point of Saleand choose the Sales History option to right-click on any column.

Select Customize Columnsand make sure to select the QB Status to check the incomplete receipts.

If any of these receipts are paid out to sales tax payable, select the receipt and click on the Reverse Receipt