Mixed-rate VAT for Cyprus retail: four rates on one receipt.
Since the temporary zero-rated basket arrived, a single grocery supplier invoice can carry 0%, 5%, 3% and 19% lines. Coding by supplier instead of by line misstates the return. Pileform reads the rate printed against each line — and adapts automatically when the basket changes.
Essentials at 0% (through 2026), most goods at 19%, foodstuffs at 5%, print at 3% — and all of it on the same supplier invoice. The basket's contents have been amended repeatedly, so any lookup table is stale by the time it is built. Coding whole invoices at one rate over- or under-collects input VAT, and the discrepancy surfaces at the worst time: reconciliation before the return.
Pileform applies the rate each line prints, yellow-flags anything inferred, and reconciles every invoice back to its printed total.
The rate column, read line by line.
Drop the period's supplier invoices and till receipts as one PDF. Each line comes back with the rate the document printed — no category lookup tables, no silent normalising to 19%.
Four rates, one invoice, no problem.
Lines at 0%, 5%, 3% and 19% on one grocery invoice each carry their own rate, and the supplier's VAT totals reconcile to the invoice's printed control totals per rate band.
Bread · €12.00 · 0%, Magazine · €4.50 · 3%, Paracetamol · €6.80 · 5%, Detergent · €31.20 · 19% — one receipt, four bands, each line correct.Basket changes, handled by design.
When the temporary 0% basket is amended or expires, the printed rates on new receipts change with the law — and Pileform reads what is printed. No lookup-table updates, no transition bugs, no miscoded January.
Inferred rates, flagged in yellow.
When a rate is not printed, it is inferred from supplier category and line item — and yellow-flagged so the reviewer confirms it. You check the four uncertain rows out of two hundred, not all two hundred.
Till receipts and supplier invoices, together.
Thermal till receipts, A4 supplier invoices, and statements all go in the same period drop. Greek-language documents are read natively — «συμπεριλαμβανομένου ΦΠΑ» phrasing included.
Reconciled to the printed total.
Net + VAT per band reconciles to the invoice's printed totals, with 5¢ cash rounding shown in an explicit adjustment cell. The workbook balances without anyone massaging the VAT figure.
See a four-rate invoice land correctly.
The sample workbook on the features page shows a mixed-rate supplier invoice with each line at its own rate and the flags visible.
Retail VAT questions, answered.
Cyprus runs a temporary zero-rated basket of essentials as a cost-of-living measure — it has included items like bread, milk, eggs, baby food, baby and adult nappies, and feminine hygiene products, and is currently legislated to run to 31 December 2026. The contents have been amended several times; check the Tax Department's current list, or read the rate printed on the receipt — it reflects the law on the day of supply.
If your process reads the printed rate, nothing — new receipts print the new rate and the books follow automatically. If your process relies on category lookup tables, every table needs updating on the changeover date and every receipt processed with the old table is a potential miscode. This is why Pileform never overrides what the document prints.
It reads the rate printed against the line — that is the primary source, and it is never overridden. Cyprus invoices and till receipts almost always print the rate or a rate-band summary. Where reconciliation across the printed totals confirms the per-line rates, the rows come back ready to post.
It is inferred from the supplier category and the line item, then yellow-flagged for review — never silently applied. The original wording from the receipt is preserved in a cell comment so the reviewer can confirm in seconds. Review time goes only to the flagged rows.
Yes — thermal till receipts, A4 supplier invoices, delivery notes, and bank statements all go into the same period drop, in any order. A typical 200-page batch processes in about 12 minutes, and the output is one workbook per supplier with the source images embedded.
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