# Cannot edit Tax Payable starting balance created by imported localization

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**Created:** [September 16, 2021, 5:52am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/cannot-edit-tax-payable-starting-balance-created-by-imported-localization/37016 "2021-09-16T05:52:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![mick2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@mick2k](https://forum.manager.io/u/mick2k)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 6:12am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/cannot-edit-tax-payable-starting-balance-created-by-imported-localization/37016/11 "2021-09-17T06:12:34Z")

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There has been quite a bit of discussion about this _Tax payable_ account following @lubos explanation [here](https://forum.manager.io/t/sales-amount-difference/37009/20).

For a newcomer to Manager, what would be the recommended or preferred approach:

**Option 1:** Create an ordinary _Tax payable_ account (where the starting balance can be adjusted), and then reconfigure the two _GST 10%_ and _GST 10% (CAPEX)_ tax codes to use this manually created _Tax payable_ account instead of the built-in _Tax payable_ account (automatically created by the imported _Australia: Business Activity Statement - Full_ localization.)

**Option 2:** Adjust the starting balance of the automatically created built-in _Tax payable_ account with a Journal Entry. (To balance this Journal Entry would require creating an Opening Balance Equity account (as is the practice of other accounting software) or using the _Retained earnings_ account).

I noticed that with Option 1, the automatically created built-in _Tax payable_ account cannot be removed. You therefore end up with two _Tax payable_ accounts. Maybe as, suggested by @Ealfardan, Option 2 would be the better approach until this issue is more definitively resolved? Option 2 might also follow a more traditional accounting software approach.

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