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13 November 2023

What is a payment request and why is VAT not charged on the payment request?

When split-billing invoicing is activated, the employer receives a monthly payment request with all charging sessions per employee, which is automatically paid if a payment method is set up. You can enable automatic payment by clicking the radio buttons at the top right under Split Billing > Overview. Once Mobiflow receives this payment, each employee will be reimbursed for the costs of their charging sessions.

We deliberately chose to work with a payment request rather than an invoice. This is because split-billing sessions are considered a sale from private to company. As a result, no VAT is charged.

A decision then had to be made either to state on the invoice that the service is not subject to VAT, or to draw up another, separate document – a payment request – that covers these transactions. We opted for the latter in the form of a payment request. A payment request can be perfectly brought into the accounts.