Flat Rate and tax line on Invoice

[terrymejia]

Has anyone been audited for flat rate?  We are going flat rate and would like the invoice to not show the tax line can this be done?

[pmora · Accepted solution]

Our residential flat rate invoices do not show a tax line.  We use labor & services for billing, then add the materials we use, not billing for them as a line item on the invoice.  We pay use tax, so it's calculated as the parts are used on our cost only except for commercial accounts which we are required to collect sales tax on the total bill.  This is what our residential customers see:

 We have not been audited that I know of since we started using flat rate.  We've been using it for several years now, at least 7-8 years.

[terrymejia]

How long have you been doing flat rate and have you ever been audited because of having this line on your invoices?