USE-CASE: UK VAT

The quarter's receipts, VAT-validated before you file.

A VAT return is only as good as the ledger behind it. MailTract turns the invoices sitting in your inbox into a checked, categorised, multi-rate VAT ledger — with every arithmetic anomaly flagged before it reaches your return.

UK VAT is rarely one rate. A single supplier invoice can mix standard-rated (20%), reduced-rated (5%), and zero-rated lines — and a ledger that collapses them into one number is a ledger you can't file from. MailTract extracts the full VAT breakdown line-by-line and verifies each one: Net + VAT must equal Gross within ±£0.02, or the document is routed to the exceptions log for review.

Supplier VAT numbers are captured and format-checked, credit notes keep their negative amounts so your totals stay honest, and duplicates — the same invoice forwarded twice, or attached to two threads — are caught by file hash before they double-count an expense.

The output is a reconciliation-ready Excel workbook with VAT totals grouped by rate and by month, plus an audit trail (cryptographic hash + extraction timestamp per document). Approved documents can also sync as draft expenses to AccountantUK, where your MTD-compatible VAT workflow continues.

# validation · INV-2093
line[1] 20% · net 850.00 · vat 170.00
line[2] 5% · net 120.00 · vat 6.00
line[3] 0% · net 63.33 · vat 0.00
sum(net) 1,033.33 + sum(vat) 176.00
EXCEPTION: gross on document reads 1,240.00 (Δ 30.67)
→ routed to exceptions log · manual review
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