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(Canada Only) 50% Meals and Entertainment recoverable; tax code setup help?

Background: in Canada meals and entertainment expenses are only able to be deducted at 50%. This extends to the sales tax (GST/HST) collected: 50% is recoverable as an Input Tax Credit, 50% is an ‘expense’. Typical bookeeping software instructions I have found say to create (assuming a 13% tax) a 6.5% ‘liability’ tax and a 6.5% ‘expense’ tax. Example instructions I found: QBO Canada Sales Tax Setup - Meals (a major competing paid Online Bookeeping Software suite is mentioned in the article). W…