Talk:Receipt/Archives/2014

Etymology

What about that the word "receipt" used to be used as a synonym for recipe? I think it switched early 20th century, but I was hoping that would be acknowledged on this page. http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/dic/oed/receipt/recipe.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.49.172.3 (talk) 03:58, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Why did you put a totally wrapped receipt as a picture? It is a quite shitty image. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.169.141.54 (talk) 08:25, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

The 1st image shows an invoice (Rechnung). Usually it becomes something like a receipt when you leave the restaurant and nobody calls the police, 'cause you havn't payed. If a receipt is really needed (for instance for tax purposes) it has to be modified (like with a signature) or a further form (Quittung) has to be filled. There is a pic of such a form in the germen wiki (and the same wrong pic of an invoice, lol, I'll correct later). If you pay via credit or debit card your Bank statement functions as a receipt.
Basically an invoice tells you, what the vendor wants to get and a receipt tells you, what he's got. See the difference?
These terms are often confused even by so called professionals. Horst Emscher (talk) 06:57, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Fixed the bug in the german version. Horst Emscher (talk) 07:23, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Notice how the 2nd receipt says, "Hi I'm JESUS"; I think it needs to be changed... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.67.164.211 (talk) 03:09, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

On a side note, in Hungary, we call this thing a blokk (i.e. block), I dont know why. We also have the word for (food) recipe, recept (notice the similar spelling to receipt), and the word for (medical) prescription, recept (though it is called vény officially). By the way, invoice is számla (szám meaning number). --Rev L. Snowfox (talk) 09:18, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Taxation aspect

Why do we keep these for tax purposes? What does the IRS care how much you've purchased with your money? I thought they only cared how much your income is.

It depends. Evidence of ordinary individual expenditures does not normally need to be kept for tax purposes, although it may be useful for budgeting. But if you are deducting it as a business expense (such as if you are self-employed) or something like that, you might need it in the event of an audit. There are many other situations where having a receipt as evidence of a purchase is useful, such as for returns, insurance claims, theft reports, etc.

The other situation is with use and sales taxes. Collection of sales tax intra-state is the responsibility of the seller, but if you buy something out of state you may need to pay a use tax when you bring it home under certain circumstances. The receipt would be necessary to prove the use tax owed. NTK (talk) 21:14, 7 December 2007 (UTC)