In loving memory of

The Paper Invoice

3400BC - 2025

Beloved creator of filing cabinets, three-week payment delays, and a deep spiritual rift between Finance and Accounts Payable. Survived by the spreadsheet, the manual reconciliation, and one mysteriously missing PO from June 2019.

The paper invoice has died, your tax obligations haven't.

Its death wasn't sudden. It was overdue.

Three compounding factors. None of them new.

All of them still costing businesses. Are they costing you?

Death by
Government Mandate

e-Invoicing is now legally required across the EU (VAT in the Digital Age), UK, India, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and 60+ other jurisdictions. The paper invoice didn't retire. It was legislated out of existence, and the deadline, in most markets, has already passed or is imminent.

Death by
Financial Haemorrhage

Businesses processing paper invoices manually leave recoverable VAT unclaimed every year. That money doesn't disappear, it sits in a tax authority account with your company's name on it. Most businesses only find out what they were owed when someone finally looks.

Death by
Collective Exhaustion

Manual data entry. Matching errors. Payment delays. Email chains with subjects nobody can parse anymore. At some point, the finance team stopped defending the process. The function that protects your business deserves better than a workflow nobody is willing to defend.

What the paper invoice left behind.

Four disciplines. One partner, and one point of contact across every market you operate in.

e-Invoicing Compliance

Mandated, imminent, or already here.

The EU's ViDA reform alone affects every business trading in Europe. France, Germany, Belgium, Poland, and more each carry their own mandates, timelines, and technical specifications. India, Saudi Arabia, and Brazil implemented theirs years ago. A PDF with your logo on it no longer qualifies in any of them.

VAT IT implements e-Invoicing compliance across every jurisdiction you operate in, structured formats, government network connectivity (Peppol, SDI, KSeF, Chorus Pro), validation rules, real-time reporting, and archiving requirements. Your team does not need to become experts in XML schema. Ours already are.

80+ countries with live or incoming e-Invoicing mandates

Conformité à la TVA

The invoice is gone. The obligation isn't.

Governments now want more data, faster, in more specific formats. Real-time digital reporting is already law in dozens of countries, and the number is growing with every legislative cycle. The paper invoice may be deceased, but your compliance responsibilities are very much alive.

VAT IT manages your full compliance lifecycle across 50+ countries, registrations, returns, real-time digital reporting, and ViDA obligations. Your team does not need to know how the Bulgarian portal works. Ours does. Every platform can process the return. Our experts handle what happens when the authority pushes back.

100+ tax jurisdictions covered

Remboursement de la TVA

Money that you might be leaving on the table.

Foreign VAT on employee travel, events, conferences, and AP invoices is recoverable in most countries. It is also, systematically, ignored. Most businesses don't know what they're owed because nobody has ever looked. The invoice left a trail of missed reclaims across every country you've ever operated in.

VAT IT identifies, validates, and recovers the foreign VAT you have already paid, on travel, accommodation, fuel, events, and supplier invoices across 60+ countries. Most clients do not know what they are owed until we look. The ones who do are usually still surprised by the total. We find it, recover it, and charge nothing unless we do.

£230 million recovered last year for clients

Sales taxes US

Infinite rules. One solution.

Every state has its own threshold. Most have changed it recently. A few have strong opinions about which categories of product are taxable that would genuinely surprise you. Economic nexus thresholds, marketplace facilitator rules, and state-level exemptions all interact in ways that are designed, it seems, specifically to catch out businesses that didn't plan ahead.

VAT IT handles US Sales Tax nexus analysis, state registrations, ongoing filing, and compliance monitoring, so your expansion into the world's largest consumer market doesn't become a state-by-state compliance project with no foreseeable end date.

50 US states with sales tax. All of them handled.
Septembre
24
EVENT
Join VAT IT at Finance & Accounting for Bioscience in Boston on 24 September, where Dale Bushell will be moderating a session on achieving global launch excellence.
Septembre
24
EVENT

Ce webinaire explique comment les entreprises américaines peuvent identifier et récupérer la TVA étrangère, en détaillant des concepts clés tels que la réciprocité et en mettant en évidence les occasions de remboursement souvent manquées.