{"id":3797,"date":"2021-06-16T06:34:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T06:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/way2vat.com\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2021-06-16T06:34:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T06:34:06","slug":"high-volume-low-value-no-receipt-will-be-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/way2vat.com\/high-volume-low-value-no-receipt-will-be-left-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"High-Volume Low-Value: No Receipt will be Left Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"
When it comes to receipt analysis at big scale, it\u2019s playing a numbers game. There is a cost of analysis for each receipt and invoice, and there is a gain to be made. In VAT\\GST reclaim, we all work together \u2013 consumers, employers, analysts, and businesses \u2013 to make a gain from undue taxes that were collected. Every stakeholder takes a cut of the gains pie. But, with a very small pie, the cost of cutting it overwhelms the potential gain. We at WAY2VAT work to make the pie bigger and bring new money to the table.<\/span><\/p>\n A simple warm-up math exercise: We have a receipt for \u20ac20. The VAT\\GST due on the transaction is 6%, so \u20ac1.13 was paid in VAT\\GST (a \u20ac18.87 expense before tax). Let\u2019s assume the cost of a single receipt analysis to extract information is fixed at \u20ac0.70 (this is not a realistic estimate). The VAT\\GST reclaim service may charge up to 30% (again not a realistic example) of the reclaimed VAT\\GST overall, meaning \u20ac0.67. Taking more than 30% will put the whole transaction at risk. Since the cost \u20ac0.70 is bigger than the potential gain of \u20ac0.67, this receipt will be discarded. We neglected to mention here the many overhead costs beyond the field extraction that account for the VAT\\GST reclaim process. For receipts of certain value \u2013 the math just doesn\u2019t work out, and many VAT\\GST reclaim service provides will simply toss the receipts out.<\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s a random snapshot of about 2,000,000 expenses we saw at WAY2VAT. We plot a histogram of the value in Euros; a count of how many receipts we\u2019ve seen in a certain value range. For example, in the \u20ac10 range we have seen roughly 50,000 receipts. We can see a very big portion of the receipts are low-value receipts (< \u20ac20, marked in red). Note the horizontal axis is on a logarithmic scale.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n