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8.8. QuickBooks error message: You cannot use the same tax item in both the line items and the txn tax

Q:  I am getting an error message while trying to export my transactions to QuickBooks that says "You cannot use the same tax item in both the line items and the txn tax".  This is causing most of my transactions to fail, and not show up in QuickBooks.  What can I do to fix this?

A:  This seems to be an issue with QuickBooks rather then EstiMate.  This issue is similar to the one caused by exporting transactions from QuickBooks POS to QuickBooks.  It seems to currently only affect our customers who are running QuickBooks 2008 R5 (Release 5).  Here is the link to the QuickBooks support page for this issue.  The article outlines a couple of fixes that should help you correct the issue.

http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/Pages/KnowledgeBaseArticle/9ce87907