{"id":1171,"date":"2025-09-01T08:04:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T06:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/vague-purchase-invoices-a-tax-risk-to-be-avoided\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T08:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T06:04:32","slug":"vague-purchase-invoices-a-tax-risk-to-be-avoided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/vague-purchase-invoices-a-tax-risk-to-be-avoided\/","title":{"rendered":"Vague purchase invoices: a tax risk to be avoided"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An invoice that limits itself to a general description such as <em>&#8220;services rendered&#8221;<\/em> is considered too imprecise. It does not make it possible to clearly identify the goods or services invoiced, which can lead to a number of problems. <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>VAT<\/strong><br\/>Your company can only reclaim VAT if it can demonstrate that the goods or services have been used for its business activity. A vague invoice makes this difficult to prove. <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>From a tax point of view (direct taxes)<\/strong><br\/>Expenses are only deductible if their reality and amount are established (art. 49 CIR 92). An invoice that is too general therefore jeopardizes the tax deduction. <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>What complements are available?<\/strong><br\/>Other documents can be used as evidence in the event of an inspection: contracts, purchase orders, quotations, e-mail exchanges, etc.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>The best solution<\/strong><br\/>Ask the supplier to issue a credit note and re-invoice with a detailed description. This will ensure that your invoice is compliant for both VAT and tax purposes. <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>To sum up<\/strong><br\/>A clear and complete invoice is the best guarantee of security when it comes to tax deductions and VAT recovery.<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An invoice that limits itself to a general description such as &#8220;services rendered&#8221; is considered too imprecise. It does not make it possible to clearly identify the goods or services invoiced, which can lead to a number of problems. VATYour company can only reclaim VAT if it can demonstrate that the goods or services have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiscalclear.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}