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Been asking for this for a long time

Bob,  Just wanted to say thanks for your comment.  I was able to turn it off for the vendors that I never want tax to show up on so I really appreciate your answer.  However, it is still my position that they never really respond in a manner that is simple or easy to use.  This has got to be the most time consuming and convoluted method I have ever seen.  Leave it to Viewpoint so make something simple hard.

 I believe that most of us just wanted to be able to not have to un-check the box when entering invoices.  If you sent the vendor up as non-taxable in the vendor set up it would seem to me that this is  where the system would look first.  In my opinion they could have done a lot better job.

 But, I feel that way about a lot of the things in this software.  Sometimes I think it would be easier to just have an area where other users could just openly discuss how they work around this totally unfriendly software, rather than have a suggestion box that they don't seem to respond to.  

Have you look at the planned enhancements, unless I am blind, I only see two for the accounting portion of this software, the rest are estimating or apply to two monitors ;

I can't see how they can justify what they charge per month when nothing in the accounting end of the software gets enhanced.

Thanks, Bob Arnett for the help on the Tax Authority set up feature on where to go and how to change the individual items (or all) to actually be non-taxable!

Gayle, this was (once again) difficult to locate, but I did find that the following did make this work properly for me. You have to go into the Tax Authorities and select which combinations of Transaction Types/Cost Types kind of lines are taxable and which are not for each Tax Authority. Then, depending on the default tax authority for the vendor, the box is checked or unchecked for those specific combinations. I hope this helps.

This is what the release notes said:

Vendor Taxable Default Settings
When you add a new line item to a vendor invoice, purchase order, subcontract, or subcontract change order,
ProContractor now applies the vendor taxable default settings for the tax authority. Vendor taxable default
settings are defined using the new Vendor Taxable Default tab of the Tax Authority screen in the Administration module. These settings give you the flexibility to accommodate almost any taxing situation by setting up different taxable rules for each company, transaction type, and cost type combination.
Vendor taxable default settings are applied as follows:
In the line item, the Taxable checkbox is not selected if the company, transaction type, and cost type
combination for the line item is set to not taxable in the vendor taxable default settings for the tax
authority or if there is a tax exemption number for the project, customer, or company; otherwise, the
checkbox is selected.
In the Tax Details grid, the Taxable Amount, Non-Taxable Amount, and Tax Amount fields are enabled if
the company, transaction type, and cost type combination is set to taxable in the vendor taxable default
settings for the tax authority. This enables you to change the default tax calculated for a linked tax
authority even when the primary tax authority does not calculate tax.
If needed, you can override the taxable default settings within a line item.

I don't really see how you can say this has been shipped.  I have vendors set up as non taxable, yet every time I enter an invoice you still have to un-check the taxable box.  So where is the turn off taxable check box located?

I agree wholeheartedly.  What is the point in setting up a vendor as non-taxable, but when you enter an invoice it automatically assumes the invoice is taxable.