Is this a VAT receipt?

[Shermanator]

I am going on my first work trip, a week down south to help out another site. This also means it is the first time I am claiming expenses, and have no idea what I am doing. Most of it should be straight forward. Just confirming, however, is the below receipt a VAT receipt? Either way, how do I tell?
I know that a card receipt is not a VAT receipt, and I need to explicitly ask for one in many places but I'm just working out what they will look like.
Ignore the items, due to the journey being more than 3 hours I get £5 for snacks for the journey down, and another for the journey up. The below will do fine for both.



Before anyone starts to sneer at me for not knowing what a VAT receipt looks like, when no-one in your family has ever travelled for work, nor are they self-employed then it isn't exactly a consideration in day to day life.

[Mr Pointy]

No it isn't - a VAT receipt will have the cost broken down to show before VAT cost, the VAT amount & the final cost together with the VAT rate & the vendors VAT number. Look at a petrol receipt & you'll very likely see what one looks like.

[Promised Land]

Do we pay VAT on food and sweets?

Looks more like an expenses receipt to me, vat receipts are like your fuel receipts from asda that show the vat amount on them.

But if it’s just expenses receipts then I’d say that is what you have as I don’t think supermarkets would do you a vat receipt for food.

[StevieBee]

No.

It's proof of purchase but not a VAT receipt.

A VAT receipt will have the vendor's VAT number shown on it and the VAT component of the total price shown separately.

But check the back - sometimes the VAT information is printed on the reverse.

Always ask for a 'Till' Receipt, not just the card receipt

[journeymanpro]

Are they really going to care about a vat receipt for that value.

[QJumper]

Promised Land said:

Do we pay VAT on food and sweets?

There's VAT on sweets, but not on cakes, There's no VAT on regular biscuits, but VAT on luxury ones, eg chocolate covered, except Jaffa Cakes, which aren't biscuits, they're cakes.

[Douglas Quaid]

journeymanpro said:

Are they really going to care about a vat receipt for that value.

Depends how much of a jobsworth the investigator is…

[OzzyR1]

Have a quick conversation with your accounts people, likely that VAT receipts are only necessary for fuel or large meals at a restaurant - entertaining clients etc.

For general subsistence, especially at under £5 I would imagine a basic receipt as shown would be acceptable.

[Neddy Sea Goon]

Although it does indicate which item attracted VAT, it doesn't show the VAT breakdown, nor crucially does it show the vendors VAT registration number, so this would not qualify as a VAT receipt

[gl20]

OP - as above, even if not a VAT receipt, I expect your employer will be ok with it. I travel loads with work and have occasionally lost a receipt and still been able to claim for it.

[SunsetZed]

OP - Here's an example of a VAT Receipt, you can see the VAT Rate and Number here which is what you're looking for.

[Eric Mc]

Under VAT rules, small level transactions do not have to show the VAT content separately. But they should show the retailer’s VAT number.

[Seventy-Eight]

OzzyR1 said:

Have a quick conversation with your accounts people, likely that VAT receipts are only necessary for fuel or large meals at a restaurant - entertaining clients etc.

For general subsistence, especially at under £5 I would imagine a basic receipt as shown would be acceptable.

You shouldn't be claiming VAT on the cost of entertaining clients!

[AdBall500]

Eric Mc said:

Under VAT rules, small level transactions do not have to show the VAT content separately. But they should show the retailer’s VAT number.

This. May be worth checking the reverse of the receipt as it's sometimes included in the small print there.
Simplified receipts for small amounts don't need a full breakdown, just the rate applicable to each item.
£1.00D - no VAT
£2.50V - VATable

[blueg33]

Douglas Quaid said:

journeymanpro said:

Are they really going to care about a vat receipt for that value.

Depends how much of a jobsworth the investigator is…

If its a Concur autitor it will be rejected

I spend at least an hour a month arguing with Concur!

[surveyor]

blueg33 said:

Douglas Quaid said:

journeymanpro said:

Are they really going to care about a vat receipt for that value.

Depends how much of a jobsworth the investigator is…

If its a Concur autitor it will be rejected

I spend at least an hour a month arguing with Concur!

Do conur have their own auditors? We are very new to the system, but I was under the impression that it was Line Manager, and Accounts approval, and Concurr did not do anything than supply the backend systems...

And OP, as other have said I've always found that most firms take a view on small cock-ups. Typical things is Gregs who don't tell you the receipt printer is broken, or the odd lost receipt..

[Shermanator]

Hello, all, again. Sorry, I really am clueless when it comes to this sort of thing and I have anxiety generally so being hundreds of miles away clueless doesn't help! I will check with the Accounts Manager when I get to site in the morning, but this looks much better to me. Look about right?

[loskie]

Shermanator said:

I am going on my first work trip, a week down south to help out another site. This also means it is the first time I am claiming expenses, and have no idea what I am doing. Most of it should be straight forward. Just confirming, however, is the below receipt a VAT receipt? Either way, how do I tell?
I know that a card receipt is not a VAT receipt, and I need to explicitly ask for one in many places but I'm just working out what they will look like.
Ignore the items, due to the journey being more than 3 hours I get £5 for snacks for the journey down, and another for the journey up. The below will do fine for both.



Before anyone starts to sneer at me for not knowing what a VAT receipt looks like, when no-one in your family has ever travelled for work, nor are they self-employed then it isn't exactly a consideration in day to day life.

I thought that with a Tesco recpt but details required were on the rear

[sleepezy]

Shermanator said:

Look about right?

Looks perfect to me. And on the other, it's not a vat receipt, although I have known some supermarkets to print details on the reverse, but it would take a taskmaster to reject the claim (I am a taskmaster but I still wouldn't reject).

I'd allow under incidentals despite the company not being able to claim input vat, assuming they're OK with you buying and expensing biccies and sweets in the 1st place under a substinance (ie general away from home living) allowance.

[craigjm]

blueg33 said:

If its a Concur autitor it will be rejected

I spend at least an hour a month arguing with Concur!

You spend an hour a month arguing with a computer programme created by SAP? There is no such thing as a concur auditor. You are confusing your companies finance department for the purchased IT system they have implemented to deal with expenses.

OP no that is technically not a VAT receipt but it is all that 99% of companies require to claim expenses for lunch etc, it will be fine.