A receipt, read
Every one you lose is VAT you cannot claim back. Photograph it while you are stood at the counter and it never gets as far as the footwell.
A receipt, read
Photograph it in the van. It is filed before you get home.
Here is one, start to finish. Photograph yours on the way out of the merchant's and the VAT is off it before you are home.
Travis Perkins
22mm copper pipe68.40
Solder ring fittings31.20
Pipe clips x5012.80
Flux + solder22.00
Radiator valves x452.00
NET186.40
VAT 20%37.28
TOTAL223.68
- Supplier
- Travis Perkins, Norwich
- Date
- 14 November 2026
- Net
- £186.40
- VAT at 20%
- £37.28
- Total
- £223.68
- Filed under
- Materials
Adds up
When a receipt does not add up, you get told — in red, figures left exactly as printed. That is the part other people quietly correct.
When a receipt does not add up
You get told, in red, with the figures left exactly as they were printed. A receipt that does not balance is a fact about that receipt, and it is yours to know — so it is put in front of you rather than tidied away.