Norway
Posted to the books your accountant uses
Coded expenses post to Xero, QuickBooks Online, Sage or NetSuite with the receipt attached and the VAT in its own account. If your accountant works in Tripletex or Visma, expenses export to Excel or CSV.
Smartbills takes the VAT from each receipt line, at 25%, 15% or 12%, and keeps each purchase categorized, foreign receipts included.
VAT read from the receipt, entertainment set apart
Every line keeps the rate it was charged, 25%, 15% or 12%, with the supplier's organization number when the receipt shows it. Representation, where VAT isn't deductible, is set apart from deductible spend.
- VAT kept per line at 25%, 15% and 12%
- Representation set apart
- Foreign VAT kept apart
Receipts that arrive on their own
Receipts that arrive by email are pulled from a connected Gmail, Outlook or Zoho mailbox, and merchants on the Smartbills network send the itemized receipt at checkout. The month doesn't end with a receipt hunt, and nobody photographs a crumpled receipt on the way home.
- Emailed receipts and invoices pulled from the mailbox
- Digital receipts from merchants on the network
- Matched to the card or bank line when it clears
Why teams switch
The tax is on the receipt, not the card statement.
Entertainment VAT keeps ending up in our deduction.
Each line keeps its category. Representation is set apart before the return.
One trip puts 25%, 15% and 12% on the same report, and we book one rate.
VAT comes from each line of the receipt. Each rate is recorded as charged.
Receipts from Stockholm come back with Swedish VAT mixed in.
Foreign receipts keep their own country and rate, apart from Norwegian input VAT.
Before and after
What changes on a Norwegian receipt.
Norway has three VAT rates and allows no deduction on entertainment. One trip's receipts can use all three rates.
| Capability | Card statement and photos | With Smartbills |
|---|---|---|
| Entertainment VAT | Deducted by mistake | Set apart |
| A trip's receipts | One rate on the total | 25%, 15% and 12% as charged |
| Swedish VAT from a trip | Mixed into the return | Kept apart |
| Getting receipts in | Photos at month end | From the mailbox or the merchant |
Integrations
Works with the tools you already use.
Your accounting software, bank feeds and card program, with data syncing in both directions.
- QuickBooks
- Xero
- Sage
- FreshBooks
- Wave
- MYOB
- Zoho Books
- NetSuite
- SAP
- Oracle
- Dynamics 365
- Square
- Shopify
- Clover
- Toast
- Lightspeed
- WooCommerce
- Stripe
- PayPal
- Adyen
- Wise
- Plaid
- Chase
- Bank of America
- Wells Fargo
- RBC
- TD
- BMO
- Scotiabank
- Desjardins
- Brex
- Ramp
- Float
- Mercury
- Gusto
- ADP
- Deel
- Rippling
- Google Drive
- Dropbox
- OneDrive
- Box
- Gmail
- Outlook
- Google Analytics
- Snowflake
- Looker
- Databricks
- Google Cloud
- Metabase
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Notion
- Zapier
- Airtable
- Salesforce
- HubSpot
The products that do the work.
Each product works on its own, and when you run two, the same record carries from the receipt to the ledger entry.
Expense management
Capture receipts, categorize expenses and check policy compliance as expenses are submitted.
Expense reports
Expense report software that attaches the receipts for you, works out mileage, routes the approval and shows each employee when they'll be paid back.
Email receipt capture
Connect Gmail, Outlook, Zoho Mail or IMAP. Automatically collect receipts and invoices from the folders you choose, including Archive and Spam.
Accounting automation
Accounting automation software that codes each transaction and posts the journal entry to your accounting software the day it happens.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What people ask us before they sign up.
25% standard rate, 15% on food and drink, and 12% on items such as hotel accommodation, passenger transport and cinema tickets.
No. VAT on representation, such as meals with clients, isn't deductible in Norway. Smartbills keeps each purchase categorized so those lines are set apart.
No. Foreign VAT can only be recovered through the refund scheme of the country that charged it, if at all. Smartbills keeps foreign receipts apart.
Xero, QuickBooks Online, Sage and NetSuite, with two-way sync. If your accountant works in Tripletex, Visma or other software, coded expenses export to Excel or CSV.
Yes. You invite your accountant with their own access, and a firm that manages many clients sees them all from one login, entities included.
Your data is stored in Canada, which the European Economic Area recognizes as providing adequate data protection, and we don't sell it. Access is limited to the people you invite.
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See a month of Norwegian receipts at their real rates.
Connect a mailbox and a card. Lines come in at 25%, 15% or 12% as charged, and entertainment VAT is kept out of the deduction.