Scans. Identifies. Files. Recovers
Scans every AP invoice and T&E expense for recoverable VAT — intra-EU 8th Directive, non-EU 13th Directive, domestic input tax. Drafts reclaim packages by jurisdiction, tracks every filing deadline, files via approved channels. Typical recovery: 0.5–2% of total expense base. Astral resolves supplier identity across entities and currencies so nothing slips between subsidiaries. Pays the platform back many times over in the first year.
By the numbers
The use case
You know you're leaving VAT on the table. No internal team has time to chase it. Filing deadlines per jurisdiction live in three spreadsheets — miss one and the whole year is lost. External advisors charge 30% contingency to recover what is already yours. T&E recoverable VAT sits in four different expense tools across the group, impossible to scan from one place.
VAT Recovery Agent scans every AP invoice and every T&E expense line across every entity and every currency. It classifies eligibility under the jurisdiction-specific rules, drafts the filing-ready reclaim packages, tracks every deadline 60/30/7 days out, files via approved channels, and reports cumulative recovery versus eligible base. Typical first-year recovery: 0.5 to 2% of total expense base. The platform pays itself back many times over in twelve months. Your group tax team focuses on planning, not chasing receipts.
For who
Capabilities
Scans for recoverable VAT across 27 EU member states plus the UK, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, and the GCC (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman). Handles intra-EU 8th Directive, non-EU 13th Directive, and domestic input tax under one workflow.
Classifies each invoice line as recoverable, partially recoverable, or blocked under jurisdiction-specific rules. Hotel and restaurant exclusions in France, fuel restrictions in Germany, entertainment caps in Italy, telecoms partial recovery in Spain — all encoded and updated continuously.
Scans both AP invoices and T&E expense reports together. Catches the recoverable VAT both teams missed — the German hotel receipt the traveler expensed but never flagged, the Belgian conference invoice that AP coded without VAT separation, the Dutch fuel station the credit-card feed swallowed.
Generates filing-ready bundles per jurisdiction with all required attachments — invoice copies, proof of payment, eligibility commentary, currency-conversion evidence. Pre-formatted to each tax authority's portal or partner-channel specification.
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