Tax collected from guests rarely equals tax remitted exactly — timing differences, rounding, and jurisdiction rules all contribute. In QuickBooks, bookkeepers are used to correcting this with a standalone journal entry against the tax liability account. In VRTrust, the adjustment is instead made as extra line items on the bank expense transaction recording the tax payment itself.

Recording the adjustment directly on the expense transaction keeps the tax remittance and its adjustment tied to the same source document and the same bank transaction — useful when reconciling against the bank feed. It also means the adjustment shows up naturally in the Lodging & Occupancy Tax report without a separate reconciling journal entry.

If a standalone journal entry is what you'd reach for by habit, expect the balance to not tie out — the adjustment needs to live on the expense transaction itself, not a separate entry.