Charging VAT only, without billing expenses

Sometimes you may want to report only the VAT from a receipt, without recording the actual expense.

For example, when you want to deduct VAT from the use of your private car for business purposes, but you're not allowed to claim the full amount as a business expense.

In these cases, you can still use the Gekko Costs app, you just need to slightly adjust the way you enter the information:

1. Get a picture of your receipt
   
   
2. Enter the details as usual, but instead of filling in the total amount of your receipt, you only fill in the VAT amount of your receipt. You fill the VAT amount in at the Total and at the VAT, so twice the same amount.
   
   

As you can see below, the VAT amount is equal to the total amount including VAT. This means that the NET cost is equal to the VAT cost.

(Note: If you enter €0 as the total amount including VAT, Gekko will assume that your net expense is the negative value of the VAT amount. Do not do this, as it will make your records look very strange!)