The Difference Between A Sales Invoice and Official Receipt

20 Jul 2021

COA clarifies when to require or use Reimbursement Expense Receipt (RER), Official Receipt (OR), Acknowledgement Receipt (A/R), and Certification of Expenses Not Requiring Receipt (CENRR)

The Commission on Audit (COA) clarifies in one of its latest guidelines, particularly COA Circular No. 2021-001, the instances when to use or require Reimbursement Expense Receipt (RER), Official Receipt (OR) / Sales Invoice, or Certification of Expenses not requiring Receipts, as supporting document to a financial transaction. Previous COA Circulars already explains the use of each financial documents, however, some public financial management practitioners are still confused as to the use of each document and when to require each one to support financial expenses. Thus, the COA issued a supplementary guidelines to clarify the use of each financial document....

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23 Sep 2019

Is a collection receipt as good as an official receipt?

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1 Sep 2019

Kailan dapat mag-issue ng Official Receipt (OR) o Sales Invoice (SI)?

May I ask a question here regarding Official Receipts and Sales Invoices? I have a retail company and the printed receipts I have from BIR are Sales Invoices with my TIN and other details of the business. I have a customer who purchased an item from us wherein we provided a Sales Invoice yet he is very insistent that we must provide an Official Receipt. I have no such documentation from BIR. Am I misinformed or missing anything? Aren’t sales invoices for the purchase of goods? The sale occurred via lazada by the way if that matters. View Answers/Discussions on...

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17 Jun 2019

WATCH | When to require SI, OR, CR, or AR as Proof of Payment?

In our article entitled “EXPLAINER: When to Require Sales Invoice (SI) or Official Receipt (OR) as Proof of Payment” we explained the differences between official receipt and sales invoice. In the said article, we clarified that an OR is required as proof of payment for the services bought and provided to the government agency while an SI is required as proof of payment for goods bought and delivered to the agency. If such sales was on credit, a collection receipt (CR) or acknowledgement receipt (AR), both duly authorized by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to be printed, is required....

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