 Now, you might say, well, wait a second, I don't want to turn on, I mean, I want to just make my bookkeeping as easy as possible and just wait till something clears the bank. How can I work my sales tax into a nice easy system like that? Let's say you're just, you're just going to make sales. I'm not even going to track the customers or whatever. I'm just going to make the sales and once they clear the bank, I'm just going to record it, you know, as revenue. Well then what you might end up doing then is to open up a trustee Excel worksheet and you can say, okay, that just means that when you make the sales, you're going to want to include the sales tax in the sales. So I'm just going to show you just a quick little worksheet on that and just to give you an idea of how you might do that. So let's just say, for example, that let's say you had sales just to get an idea of this of $500 and the sales tax rate, let's say, is that 5% 0.05%. Let's make this bold and I'm going to make that a percent number percentifying it. So if I multiply this out, let's add decimals to this whole thing, adding some decimals. All right, then I'm going to percentify underline and this is going to be this times this. And so that's going to be your sales tax, right? And then so the total price is going to be this times this. Well, hold on a sec. That's not right. It's going to be this plus this. So if we sold something for $500, then the total price plus the sales tax is going to be the 525. We can get there quicker to the sales price by saying, okay, well, if the sales is going to be 500, then I'm going to say so 100% plus plus sales tax, right, sales tax rate, 100% plus sales tax rate, which is going to be equal to 1 plus 0.05, 1 plus 0.05, 0.05, which is 1.05, or if I make it a percent, 105% underlining that, that will get us to our sales price, right? That's going to get us to our sales price. Now the tricky thing is if you made a bunch of sales, then you would think that you could, you could say, okay, if I made a bunch of sales and all my sales sales, including tax, were at this amount, 525, and then, you know, the thug comes into my place and says, you need to pay me protection money. You need to pay me protection money of 5%. That's the government. And we're like, oh God, here we go again. Okay, we'll pay you the 5%, right? If you're going to protect us, just like you did with that COVID, you shut us down. You shut me down. Anyways, we're going to say 0.05. Let's make this a percent. And then you would think that you could just say 525 times the 5%, right? But that's not exactly right. You'd be overpaying the sales tax if you were to do that. So you can't take your end sales and multiply it times the 5% because the sales that you made already include the sales tax. So if you're taking your end sales, like all your sales are at the 525, then how can you back into the sales tax? So if you make all your sales, you can imagine you make all of your sales. And instead of recording this liability account here of the sales tax liability as you make the sales, you're just going to record everything to revenue, which includes the sales tax portion of the sale, which means you're overstating the revenue account. But then you're going to make an adjustment at the end of the period for your sales tax, right? You're going to back out the sales tax. And then so when you back out the sales tax, you can't just take your sales times the 5%. It has to be something, you know, you got your equation. Your equation is, well, I know what my, I know what my, let's just copy this equation over here. Like here's my sales. Here's my that. And then here's my total price. So it's the same thing, but I'm really kind of backing into this number, right? Because I know that this is the 1.05 or 105%. I can percentify that. And the sales and the total price I know is this 525. So I'm basically backing into the sales number so you can write out your algebraic equation, which would be something like this would be X, right? So it's going to be X times 1.05 equals the 525. And you're backing into X. So if you do that, I'm going to say this is going to be equal to this divided by this. And there's your 500. You can double check it by multiplying it out this way. And then you get the right amount. Otherwise, and then, you know, so if that's the, so the actual tax you're paying is 25, not the 26, 25. So what you'll end up doing is when you, whenever you make the sales and you record the sales with the deposit, like the accounts that will be affected as cash is going to be going up by the full amount of the 525 that you're recording and you're in trying to include the sales tax in the sales price, you're just going to say here's the price plus it includes the sales tax, right? And then you're just going to record the whole thing as sales because you're just going to record it as sales when it clears the bank. Then you're going to have your overstated statement of sales. When you pay the sales tax, then you're going to say, okay, then I'm just going to reduce sales, which is unnatural. That's, you don't usually reduce sales, but we're going to do it here because we overstated the sales and we're trying to make a simple system. And then the other side is going to go to cash. So then sales will go back down to where it should be, which would be this minus the 25, the 500 instead of the 525. So you can, so if you're on a very simplified kind of system and you have to deal with sales tax, then the bottom line is you might just include the sales tax in the price of the stuff you're selling and then just make sure that when you're calculating the sales tax, you're not just calculating it based on the total sales. When you're paying the mobster that comes in and says that you got to pay them protection money, you're not just going to take it on the total sales item here, that mobster being the government. You got to instead make sure that you're properly calculating the tax backing into the sales amount, otherwise you're going to overpay the sales tax. And then when you pay the tax, instead of paying down the liability, you're in essence reducing the sales back down to where it should be if you're not including the tax. Because you can imagine a situation where you're going to say, well that's sales and maybe you think the other side should be sales, sales, tax expense, right? That's what you might think it should go to. It would go there if you thought of the sales tax as an ordinary and necessary business expense and the sales revenue as revenue. So you could do that too, but that's not something you want to report on like your tax return or anything like sales tax expense because it looks like because it's not supposed to be an income statement item, right? The idea of the sales tax is it's not hitting the income statement, so that's why you'd reduce kind of revenue with it. Okay, that's the general idea with the sales tax.