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There needs to be a separate general ledger code per sales tax (GST) code.
We can claim both NZ (15%) and Australian GST (10%) on invoices paid. Currently the GST automatically deducted from the invoices are all coded to one GST holding code in the balance sheet.
This means the code is mixing up two completely unrelated items.
For ease of reconciliation (and good accounting practice), each GST / sales tax should have its own code.
The only way I can separate the two GST types is to manually journal the monthly balance from one code to another.

We have both NZ and Australian GST. When raising an invoice (mostly expenses in our case) we can select which tax code to use NZ15% expenses, Aust 10% and so on. The big issue is that the GST portion is coded to one general ledger code. This makes it difficult to reconcile the balance as there are entries which have nothing in common with each other all in the same code.
Each tax code should have its own general ledger code. In our case both the NZ rates would be posted to code 9170 GST and the 10% Aust rate would be coded to 9171.

Yes, I am in a location where we need to add tax for multiple jurisdictions (federal and provincial), and it all goes into the same tax account, which is very unhelpful! Our accountant when reviewing our books had trouble understanding why our tax filings weren't matching up with the tax account--it looked like we had severely under-paid our federal tax, until it became clear that Xero was adding our provincial tax to this account as well. This seems like a pretty basic functionality that could be improved.

As it stands, in order to do this correctly, the same entity has to have two Xero instances, one for each country, which is dumb.