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Does anyone know if (in the UK at least) HMRC require companies to submit the actual receipts (physical bits of paper) or do scanned images suffice?


http://blog.receipt-bank.com/?p=428 quote HMRC as saying

"Records may be preserved on optical imaging systems, and the originals discarded, provided that what is retained in digital form represents a complete and unaltered image of the underlying paper document."

giving the reference as http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110720224136/htt...


Call the tax authorities and ask. At least then, you have some cover for your ass if it turns out their don't suffice.


I don't know about UK, but in the USA scanned images are legally adequate for this sort of thing.


I sure hope so. I'll phone up tomorrow and ask.




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