Add a legal entity
If your company or part of your company collects and reports sales and use tax separately from the organization already set up in Sales Tax Filing, you can add it as a new legal entity.
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You need a new OU Code to add a legal entity. Create a case on the Sovos Portal to request one from our support team.
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You must have one of the following user roles:
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Admin
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Team Lead
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MS User
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- Go to and click Add legal entity.
- In the Legal entity details section, enter the required information and any optional information you want to include.
- In the Contact information section, select your address type, then enter the required information and any optional information you want to include.
- In the Data processing settings section, select the date type, date range, and processing date.
- In the Data holding section, select a holding preference.
- Optional: If you want to assign separate payment accounts to individual forms of payment, select Include General Ledger Payment Accounts in the General Ledger payment accounts section, then fill in the Payment account and Description fields for each form of payment.
- Optional: If you want to store banking information for webfiling, select Include banking information in the Banking information section, then fill in the fields.
- Optional: In the Signature information section, enter the signee information and upload a signature in JPEG format to apply to all returns.
- Click Save.
