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Accumulating material sales taxes 

Category cost basis for addons

This cost basis uses one or more of the five cost categories to calculate the addon.

Addons, or markups, are indirect costs that apply to the whole estimate. Addon amounts can be based on a wide variety of costs such as the total cost of the estimate, category costs (labor, material, and equipment, for example), or selected hours.

The addon can be based on all costs or on just the taxable costs.

Example:

  • To create an addon for supervisory overhead against labor costs, choose the Category cost basis and then specify the Labor category.

  • To create an addon for material sales tax against material costs, first select the Category cost basis and the Material category. Then select the Taxable only option.

Calculation: Total estimated costs for selected categories x Rate