Before you buy an existing business, find out if the business owes any Texas taxes. Consider all costs at time of acquisition or construction.You don't need to call out the sales tax you paid in a sales tax expense entryit's just part of your overall purchase expense. There's a lot that you need to know about asset purchase agreements in Texas. This article will help explain a few of those things. This post considers an example of a vehicle purchase, to show how to record the entries and the impact on the financial statements. The election provides for no GST (or HST in the HST provinces) to be payable in respect of the purchase and sale of the assets and reduces the cash. A taxable asset purchase allows the buyer to "step up," or increase, the tax basis of the acquired assets to reflect the purchase price.