TaxComply The Blue Sentinel
New: expense module with roles for accounting and employees

Your Invoice Intake Under Control.

Every invoice and expense receipt checked, approved and posted. TaxComply catches duplicates, calculation errors, wrong VAT rates and missing mandatory details — before you pay. Snap expenses with your phone and throw the paper away.

♻️ No double payments
Duplicate check on every invoice
📷 Expenses by photo
Throw the paper receipt away
⚡ Qualified VAT ID check
BZSt first, VIES fallback & auto re-run
Real-Time Inspection Engine
INCOMING INVOICE #RE-2026-10042 PASSED (100% Compliant)

Apex TechSolutions GmbH

VAT ID: DE314159265 (BZSt Verified)

€1,547.00
INCOMING INVOICE #INV-88392 REJECTED (Calculation Error)

Global Logistics Corp

Tax Mismatch: €147.00 vs €247.00

€1,447.00
Direct Action Trigger:
Verified p.a. (Live): €42,850 Input Tax Protected

The Challenge & The Solution

What Goes Wrong in Invoice Intake

Paper in the mail, PDFs in the inbox, receipts in a jacket pocket: every gap in invoice intake costs money or time — and often only shows when paying or in a tax audit.

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Without Control

  • • Paid twice: the same invoice by mail and by email, or a reminder duplicate.
  • • Miscalculated: calculation errors, a wrong VAT rate, rounding.
  • • 19% cash-flow loss: retroactive rejection of input tax claims by tax auditors, plus 1.8% interest a year on back payments (§ 233a AO).
  • • Expense paper chase: collecting, gluing, typing and keeping receipts.
  • • Liability trap: missing VAT IDs or unverified foreign suppliers expose companies to tax fraud liabilities.
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With TaxComply

  • • Automatic intake: Upload invoices or forward them to your company's own intake address — checked within seconds.
  • • Duplicates and math: known invoice numbers — also from an imported list — and calculation errors caught before you pay.
  • • Evidence for tax audits: The BZSt and VIES raw responses are stored with every check (§ 18e German VAT Act).
  • • Approval and posting: findings land as a task; approved receipts are posted to CashCtrl, Lexoffice and more — with a 1-click correction email to the supplier when needed.
Simply by email

Up and running in five minutes

No installation, no interface: your company gets its own intake address. Suppliers send invoices straight there — or you forward them from your mailbox.

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Email your invoices

To rechnung+your-company@taxcomply.cloud — straight from the supplier or by a forwarding rule in your mailbox. Only sender domains you approve are accepted.

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Results back by email

Every check comes back as a traffic light: green forwards the checked invoice to your accounting or payment mailbox, yellow and red report the findings with a link straight to the receipt.

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Add on when you like

Connecting your accounting software (CashCtrl, Lexoffice and more) and the audit-proof archive are optional — start without both and switch them on when you are ready.

From intake to posting

One flow for every document

TaxComply doesn't just check — each document moves from intake through approval into your accounting.

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1 · Intake

Upload invoices by drag & drop or forward them to your company's own intake address. Only sender domains you have approved are accepted.

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2 · Checks

Mandatory invoice details under your country's law, the VAT rate valid on the supply date, invoices with several VAT rates, small-amount and foreign invoices, duplicates. Foreign currencies at the official BMF rates.

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3 · Approval

Flagged documents become a task for accounting: approve, reject with a note or withhold payment. Notifications per result to a green, yellow or red mailbox.

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4 · Posting

Approved documents are posted to your accounting software — CashCtrl, Lexoffice and more — or handed to your accountant as a pre-assigned list by account and VAT rate (Excel/PDF), with account assignments TaxComply learns per supplier.

Invoice Control

What TaxComply Checks on Every Invoice

Duplicates and math for everyone — mandatory details, VAT rates and VAT IDs under your country's law.

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BZSt-First Protocol

Qualified confirmation of foreign EU VAT IDs at the German Federal Central Tax Office (§ 18e UStG), VIES as fallback. The raw response is stored as evidence.

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Swiss VAT Matrix

Verifies Swiss UID numbers with `MWST` suffix (`CHE-123.456.789 MWST`), reduced rates (8.1%, 2.6%, 3.8%), and 5-centime rounding (Art. 26 MWSTG).

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Austrian Rule Set

Mandatory invoice details under § 11 Austrian VAT Act 1994, UID check via VIES, all VAT rates incl. 4.9% from July 2026, and the recipient UID above €10,000.

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Duplicates & Math

Known invoice numbers — also from an imported list of your past invoices — and calculation errors are caught before you pay. On errors TaxComply writes the email to the supplier.

🔒 Safe from manipulated invoices

TaxComply detects hidden instructions to the AI in an invoice, checks that the values read really appear on the receipt, and warns when a known supplier suddenly gives a different IBAN — the most common invoice fraud. Suspicious receipts are never approved automatically.

  • ✓Data and AI processing in Frankfurt (EU)
  • ✓Your receipts never train AI models
  • ✓Under GDPR and the Swiss FADP
E-invoices

E-invoices? TaxComply reads them directly.

ZUGFeRD/Factur-X and XRechnung (CII and UBL) are read from the structured data — no AI, no typing — and every e-invoice is also checked formally against EN 16931 and XRechnung.

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Read from the structure

Amounts, VAT rates, supplier and line items come straight from the XML. An XML invoice arriving by email together with a PDF is one receipt.

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Formally checked

Violations of EN 16931 and the XRechnung rules appear with their rule number in the report — for a targeted correction by the supplier.

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The obligation in view

Since 2025 you must be able to receive e-invoices; PDF invoices remain permitted only during the transition until the end of 2026 or 2027. TaxComply shows for every invoice whether it already meets the obligation.

Expenses by photo

Snap it. Done.

Employees photograph the receipt with their phone or forward it by email. TaxComply reads it, checks it against the law and your expense policy, accounting approves — posted and archived audit-proof.

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Photo instead of paper

Snap the receipt in the expense app or send it to the expense address — separately for company card and paid privately.

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Expense checkpoints

On top of the mandatory invoice details, TaxComply checks expense-specific points such as expense type, hotel breakfast and business meals.

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Your expense policy

Store your company's own expense rules. The AI checks every expense receipt against them and hands deviations to accounting for approval.

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Roles

Management, accounting and employees: employees only see their own expenses and the exchange rates, accounting checks and approves.

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Approval and posting

Approved by accounting — nobody there approves their own expense receipt. In your accounting, expenses paid privately are posted against the employee.

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Overview for employees

Count, paid privately, company card, open approvals and documents with findings — for the current month, quarter or year.

You may then throw the paper receipt away, provided it is archived audit-proof (included in Business and Scale, bookable in Flex and Basic) and your procedure documentation describes the replacing scan — TaxComply provides both.

Tamper-proof archive

Checked, approved — and safely retained

TaxComply keeps every completed document with its audit protocol unalterable and protected against deletion: 10 years, following the rules of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. No archive system of your own needed.

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Stored unalterably

Every file is kept with a retention lock (WORM) in a data centre in Frankfurt. Until the period ends nobody can delete or overwrite it — not even us.

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Everything about a document in one place

Original document, supplementary records such as business-meal details, and the audit protocol: result of every checkpoint, answers from BZSt, VIES and the UID register, who approved and when.

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Integrity provable at any time

Every document gets a digital fingerprint (SHA-256) on intake. The audit report shows “archived on … · unalterable until … · checksum ok”, and a complete log shows every step.

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Every change as a new version

If a document is decided again or re-checked after approval, TaxComply archives a new version. Earlier versions stay unchanged.

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Ready for the tax audit

All documents of a period as a ZIP: originals, supplementary records, audit data and archive protocol with checksums. TaxComply also drafts your procedure documentation.

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Retention periods in DE · AT · CH

Germany 8 or 10 years (§ 147 AO, § 14b UStG), Austria 7 years (§ 132 BAO), Switzerland 10 years (Art. 958f CO, GeBüV, Art. 70 VAT Act) — 10 years cover all three.

Included in Business and Scale — bookable in Flex and Basic for €9 per month or €99 per year

When activated, TaxComply also archives your already completed documents.

See pricing

Archived documents stay stored until their period ends, even after the contract ends; at contract end you receive a complete copy. Access to the archive after the end of the contract: €99 per year. Longer special periods (e.g. for real estate) are not covered. Responsibility for proper bookkeeping remains with you.

Tax advisors and fiduciaries

All clients in one place

For tax advisors in Germany and Austria and fiduciaries (Treuhänder) in Switzerland.

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Client switch

Switch into the document review of any client you look after with one click — with the rights of the client's management.

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Clients via invite code

Clients register with your firm's code and are assigned to you once you confirm.

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Transfer credits

Buy credits centrally and pass them on to your clients.

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Own registration

Firm registration with a digitally accepted partner contract; called fiduciary (Treuhänder) in Switzerland.

Further functions

Everything accounting needs day to day

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KPI dashboard

Detected input tax risk, straight-through rate, time saved and credit balance — per period.

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Audit log and suppliers

Every checked document searchable and filterable, with a supplier register built from the checked invoices.

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Mini-app "Law"

For every checkpoint the legal basis with its wording and source — for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

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VAT calculator

Net, gross and tax amount calculated in seconds — for Switzerland with every VAT rate, accommodation included.

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VAT ID and UID checker

Check any EU VAT ID or Swiss UID, including the register's raw response; in Switzerland with a register extract and company search.

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Exchange rates and languages

Official monthly rates and ECB daily rates; interface in German, English and French, also on smartphones.

Interactive ROI Calculator

Calculate Your Annual Protection & Savings

Choose your country and adjust the sliders to match your monthly volume of documents and their average gross amount to see your estimated ROI in protected input tax and saved accounting hours.

Country:
200 documents

Invoices and expense receipts, 0 to 5,000

€300

Every invoice counts once — whatever its amount

3 min

Mandatory details, VAT ID in the register, rate and amount

€50

Full cost per hour including overheads

Your Annual Savings Breakdown

Faulty documents per year (~2% of 2,400): 48 documents
At-Risk Input Tax p.a.: €2,299
Saved Verification Hours p.a.: 120 hours
Value of the Time Saved p.a.: €6,000
TaxComply p.a. (Business): €1,440
Estimated Net Benefit p.a.: €859

Simplified: ~2% faulty documents, all at the average amount; time value = documents × checking time × hourly rate; net benefit = input tax at risk + time value − TaxComply (cheapest plan, net).

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Pricing

An invoice is an invoice.

Domestic or foreign, small amount or foreign currency: you pay per checked invoice — no surcharges. Prices in euros, net plus VAT; secure payment via Stripe.

Flex

For sole traders and small volumes — no subscription

€45 for 50 invoices
€0.90 per invoice · no subscription
  • ✓Package valid for 12 months
  • ✓No subscription: no term, nothing to cancel
  • ✓Checks for DE · AT · CH incl. foreign invoices
  • ✓Accounting connector (CashCtrl, Lexoffice and more) or pre-assignment for your accountant
  • ✓Flex add-on without base fee: expense module €6 per active employee and/or archive €9 a month
  • ✓E-mail support
Try 30 days for free

Basic

For small SMEs with a predictable flow of receipts

€49 per month
or €490 per year (2 months free)
from €0.61 per invoice at 80 invoices a month, yearly from €0.51
  • ✓80 invoices per month included
  • ✓each further €0.55
  • ✓Term 1 month or 12 months, renews automatically, cancellable with one month's notice to the end of the term
  • ✓Expense module: €4 per active employee
  • ✓Accounting connector or pre-assignment
  • ✓Audit-proof archive bookable: €9 a month or €99 a year
  • ✓E-mail support
Choose Basic
For most SMEs

Business

For SMEs with a regular flow of receipts

€99 a month
or €990 a year (2 months free)
from €0.50 per invoice at 200 invoices a month, yearly from €0.41
  • ✓200 invoices a month included
  • ✓each further €0.45
  • ✓Term 1 month or 12 months, renews automatically, cancellable with one month's notice to the end of the term
  • ✓Expense module: €4 per active employee
  • ✓Accounting connector or pre-assignment
  • ✓Foreign VAT reclaiming: IT Touch files for you — 20 % success fee, only on refund
  • ✓Audit-proof archive included
  • ✓E-mail and phone support
Choose Business

Scale

For trade, production and groups

€299 a month
or €2,990 a year (2 months free)
from €0.37 per invoice at 800 invoices a month, yearly from €0.31
  • ✓800 invoices a month included
  • ✓each further €0.35
  • ✓Term 1 month or 12 months, renews automatically, cancellable with one month's notice to the end of the term
  • ✓Expense module: €4 per active employee
  • ✓Everything in Business
Choose Scale

★ Enterprise & firms

From 2,000 invoices a month, tax advisors and fiduciaries

Individual
Agreement and invoice tailored to you
  • ✓Volume price per invoice
  • ✓Firms: all clients under one agreement
  • ✓Contact person and SLA · invoice instead of credit card
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No surcharges

Foreign invoice, foreign currency, small amount, posting — everything counts as one invoice. Every receipt from upload or the invoice mailbox counts as an invoice; checking the same receipt again is free.

Expense module

In Basic, Business and Scale: €4 per employee who submits expenses in the month; with Flex through the Flex add-on for €6. Up to 30 expense receipts per active employee and month included. Expense receipts are paid receipts — an open invoice (with a due date or payment reference) counts as an invoice.

Try without risk

New customers get 25 invoices for free, valid for 30 days, no credit card. Subscriptions can be cancelled with one month's notice to the end of a period; upgrades apply at once.