<p>Americans might be "why would you need an invoice?" which is also why it's so hard to get invoices from American companies and also why you get the meme about Germans who have the most strict IRS in the world and will always email you a year later "rechnung bitte!!!" (invoice please!)<br>

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So in the rest of the world accounting usually works like this:<br>

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You spend $1, now you need to account for that $1 with a bank or card transaction which you tie to an invoice/receipt<br>

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If you can't account for that with an invoice/receipt, your accountant won't account it as an expense, so it won't be a cost, so it won't reduce your profit, so you will pay more tax<br>

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If I can't account $100,000 I spend as a cost for my business with an invoice, I will pay ~$20,000 in corporate tax for that money, which was a cost infact! No way around it<br>

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In my opinion this accounting only helps to reduce GDP, because hours spend every month by a business owner like me could be spend building more cool stuff which people pay for and which give me more money<br>

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In another way it reduces GDP because as you see it makes me stop spending my money on costs, I try reduce my costs to $0 not just because I like it, but because bookkeeping for expenses is such a heinous waste of my time<br>

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Expense accounting in the rest of the world should work like it does in America: you spend money, there's a bank/card transaction, and that's sufficient. Then if the IRS decides to audit you, you simply go back and get the invoices then, not when you spend the money, much easier!<br>

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Stop wasting business owner's precious time 😊</p>

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<p>you need invoices for it all? <br>

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i just hand my accountant a spreadsheet i made that show all charges catagorized into catagories<br>

each flagged as expense or not <br>

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pull CC history once a month and have claude fill it out in a csv for me then port it to a master google sheet</p>

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