Cross-border VAT · Directive 2008/9/EC

The cross-border VAT
you wrote off.

We do the advisor's work. You file it yourself.

FastBatches audited in seconds. Not weeks of advisory manual labor.
ProfessionalAudit-defensible mapping built strictly on Directive 2008/9/EC logic.
FairA flat platform fee. We never take a success percentage or cut of your asset.
Macro Asset Exposure Estimatorrange, not a single number
€1M
You're likely owed back€ 30,000€ 90,000~20% avg EU VAT × ~30–60% recoverable categories × ~50–75% per-state deductibility. Your actual yield depends on category mix and member states. Verify your real data with 3 sample invoices in 30 seconds.
Austria · standard VAT 20%Belgium · standard VAT 21%Bulgaria · standard VAT 20%Cyprus · standard VAT 19%Czech Republic · standard VAT 21%Germany · standard VAT 19%Denmark · standard VAT 25%Estonia · standard VAT 22%Spain · standard VAT 21%Finland · standard VAT 25.5%France · standard VAT 20%Greece · standard VAT 24%Croatia · standard VAT 25%Hungary · standard VAT 27%Ireland · standard VAT 23%Italy · standard VAT 22%Lithuania · standard VAT 21%Luxembourg · standard VAT 17%Latvia · standard VAT 21%Malta · standard VAT 18%Netherlands · standard VAT 21%Poland · standard VAT 23%Portugal · standard VAT 23%Romania · standard VAT 19%Sweden · standard VAT 25%Slovenia · standard VAT 22%Slovakia · standard VAT 23%
EU27 member states17–27%VAT range
EitooEU-27 · Council Directive 2008/9/EC
€89.3B
EU VAT gap, 2022 — VAT owed but uncollected
EC VAT Gap Report 2024
27
EU member states · 8th Directive
Dir. 2008/9/EC
15
audit-defensible compliance gates
per invoice
9mo
submission window before forfeit
Sept 30 annual deadline
Built on infrastructure your DPO already approves
Coverage

All 27 EU member states under Directive 2008/9/EC.

One platform fee. No per-country uplift. Every member state on the same submission engine, every quarter.

  • ATAustria
  • BEBelgium
  • BGBulgaria
  • HRCroatia
  • CYCyprus
  • CZCzechia
  • DKDenmark
  • EEEstonia
  • FIFinland
  • FRFrance
  • DEGermany
  • GRGreece
  • HUHungary
  • IEIreland
  • ITItaly
  • LVLatvia
  • LTLithuania
  • LULuxembourg
  • MTMalta
  • NLNetherlands
  • PLPoland
  • PTPortugal
  • RORomania
  • SKSlovakia
  • SISlovenia
  • ESSpain
  • SESweden
See it run · live demo below

This is the system. One real invoice, end-to-end.

Watch what happens when you drop a Paris hotel folio onto /recover: vendor + multi-rate VAT (10% accommodation, 20% conference) + country + period extracted, 15 audit-defensible gates run against Directive 2008/9/EC, recoverable amount in your hand in under two seconds.

live · sample invoiceFR · multi-rate · 1.4s
marriott-paris-FR-2026-08812.pdf
live
HOTEL FOLIO · FR · MULTI-RATE
Marriott Champs-Élysées
70 Av. des Champs-Élysées · Paris FR
Inv. FR-2026-08812Mar 2026
5 nights · Executive King1,750.00
Conference room · half-day250.00
Net total2,000.00
VAT 10% on accommodation175.00
VAT 20% on conference50.00
Gross2,225.00
Extracted100%
VendorMarriott Champs-Élysées
Net€ 2,000.00
VAT (10% + 20%)€ 225.00
CountryFrance · FR
CodeB.06 — Accommodation + B.09 — Conference
PeriodMar 2026
Article2008/9/EC §5(2)(a)
Audit-defensible checks0 / 15
Document type validG01
Vendor VAT ID verified · FRG05
Deductible under FR rules · multi-rateG08
Submission window openG11
Above member-state minimumG15
Recoverable
€ 0.00
audit-defensibleDir. 2008/9/EC §5(2)(a)
This was one invoice. Now run yours.Drop a batch
01 · How it works

Three steps. You stay in control.

Upload your invoices or connect your AP system. Eitoo classifies and verifies every line item against the directive. You file the package — no engagement letter, no Big 4 layer, no success fee. The member state pays you directly.

01 · Ingest
Upload or connect

Drop receipts as PDFs, or connect your AP stack — Pleo, Spendesk, SAP Concur, NetSuite, Stripe Issuing. AI extracts vendor, VAT, country, period, and expense code in seconds.

~2 sec / invoice
02 · Verify
Audit-defensible by gate

Each invoice is run through 15 named compliance gates — VIES vendor check, deductibility under member-state rules, deadline window, threshold, expense classification — every decision traced to a specific directive article.

15 gates · pass/fail trail
03 · Submit yourself
8th Directive package

We assemble the submission package per Directive 2008/9/EC, formatted for each member state. You upload it via the official portal yourself — no consultant in between, no success fee. The state remits directly to your account.

~10 min / member state
02 · Inside the system

Real recovery. Audit-defensible by line item.

This is what the dashboard looks like when your last 90 days of cross-border invoices come through Eitoo.

Recovery batch · Q3 2026
Cross-border invoices verified against Directive 2008/9/EC.
Status 2CountryPeriodAmount
Pending submission (12)
🇩🇪Lufthansa AGDE-2025-04129 · B.04 Travel€ 769.61VAT
🇫🇷Sofitel Paris Le FaubourgFR-2026-01884 · B.05 Hotel€ 1,240.50VAT
🇳🇱KLM Royal Dutch AirlinesNL-2026-00742 · needs review€ 184.20VAT
🇨🇭Hotel Les Trois Rois · BaselCH-2026-00318 · B.05 Hotel€ 2,150.00VAT
🇧🇪Steigenberger Wiltcher'sBE-2026-00091 · B.05 Hotel€ 416.30VAT
Audit-defensible check
DE-2025-04129 · Lufthansa AG · €769.61
Field Invoice Directive
Doc typeTax invoice§10 valid
VAT IDDE 81…789VIES verified
PeriodApr 20269-mo window open
CodeB.04 Travel§5(2)(a) eligible
Threshold€ 769.61≥ DE €500 min
15 / 15 gates passed · ready to submit€ 769.61
03 · Head to head

Three ways to recover EU VAT. Only one ships on a flat fee.

 
DIY in-house
Outsourced advisor
Eitoo
Pricing
Hidden — internal time + missed claims.
15–30% of every refund.
Flat platform fee.
Speed
Months. Usually abandoned.
Quarters. Batched, chased.
Seconds per invoice.
Audit trail
Spreadsheets, email threads.
PDFs locked in their portal.
Per-invoice, in your tenant.
Data residency
Internal — but stalled.
Often non-EU sub-processors.
EU-only · Frankfurt.
Who files
You — alone.
They file. They take the cut.
You — with the package done.

You've seen the alternatives. Now run yours.

04 · The market gap
89.3B
EU VAT gap in 2022 — total VAT owed but not collected across the 27 member states. Cross-border refund recovery is one of the corners of this gap that mid-market finance teams quietly give up on.
Source: European Commission · VAT Gap Report 2024 (2022 data)
05 · Pricing

Priced by invoice volume. Not by what you recover.

Outsourced advisors charge 15–30% of every refund — the more you recover, the more they take. Eitoo charges a flat platform fee sized to the cross-border invoice volume you actually run through the system. Billed annually, displayed monthly. Your refund stays yours.

Lite

Smaller teams, mostly travel + hotel VAT.

€49/ month
Billed annually (€588)

Up to 150 cross-border invoices/year

  • Up to 150 cross-border invoices / year
  • All 27 EU member states
  • Automated submission packages for every member-state portal
  • VIES vendor validation · real-time
Secure Onboarding Slot

Scale

Larger mid-market. EU-wide cross-border ops.

€399/ month
Billed annually (€4,788)

Up to 5,000 cross-border invoices/year

  • Up to 5,000 cross-border invoices / year
  • Custom expense-code mapping (per-jurisdiction overrides)
  • Priority dedicated support channel
  • Automated tax-authority correspondence tracking
  • Everything in Core
Secure Onboarding Slot

Enterprise

Above 5,000 invoices/yr. SSO, custom SCC, dedicated SLA.

CustomSized to your volume + SLA

Above 5,000 invoices/year

  • Dedicated infrastructure tenant
  • SAML SSO + custom SCC + dedicated DPA
  • Annual on-site review
  • Tailored SLA + 24-hour issue response
Talk to Itay

Why annual contracts

  • EU VAT reclamation cycles are quarterly or annual under the 8th Directive. Monthly SaaS alone doesn't match how finance teams actually procure and recover.
  • Annual billing locks your platform cost upfront — no surprise renewals, no auto-bumps mid-quarter.
  • 14-day pilot first on three of your real invoices. No card, no commitment until the fee is agreed in writing.
  • Invoice cap is a soft cap — overages within 20% are absorbed quietly. Past that, we'll talk before billing changes.

Every plan includes

  • All 27 EU member states on the same fee
  • 15 audit-defensible compliance gates per invoice
  • VIES vendor validation, real-time
  • Per-invoice audit trail (10-year retention)
  • EU-resident infrastructure (Frankfurt)
  • 14-day pilot on real invoices · no card
  • No success fee. Ever.

Software cost ≠ advisor cost. A Core-tier customer recovering ~€50K of VAT pays ~3.5% of the refund on Eitoo. The same recovery via VAT IT/Taxback/Meridian typically costs 15–30%. Math at every tier in lib/pricing.ts.

06 · Who's behind this

The call is with Itay. Not a sales team.

I'm Itay Kahan — solo founder, based in Tel Aviv & Basel, operating on EU-resident infrastructure (eu-central-1 · Frankfurt). I work with a small group of advisors who hold equity in the company; they bring the EU-VAT, ex-Big-4 and tax-tech operator experience I don't have. My previous startup was in healthcare, not finance — so when I tell you I think the success-fee model is unfair, that's coming from outside the industry, not inside it.

The 15-minute call is me walking you through what we'd recover from your last 12 months and what a fair fee structure for you could look like. No deck. No scripted pitch.

DPO comfortable? Drop a real batch.

08 · How €769 becomes €84,320

One trip is €769. A year of cross-border vendor invoices is something else.

Most teams operating in 3+ EU member states see €40,000 to €120,000 of recoverable VAT slip into a folder annually. Here's a typical 12-month batch by jurisdiction.

DE · Travel
€ 18,400
FR · Hotels
€ 28,650
NL · Conferences
€ 11,820
BE · Catering
€ 7,540
CH · Vendors
€ 17,910
Median 12-month batch · 240–420 invoices · 5 jurisdictions≈ €84,320 recoverable