Types of business invoices

Every entrepreneur running a business knows and uses at least one type of invoice. It is, of course, the VAT invoice – the most popular and in most cases sufficient document. It is the VAT invoice that serves to document the sale of goods and services. What are the other options? Find out about the different types of invoice in the business cycle. There are ten of them!
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Types of invoices in a company


What types of invoices do we distinguish?


In business transactions we can encounter 10 types of invoices:

Sales invoice (VAT invoice)

What the sales invoice must contain:

What the sales invoice does not have to contain:

Important!

Advance payment invoice

What an advance invoice must contain:

Important!

Final invoice

What the final invoice must contain:

Corrective invoice

What the correcting invoice must contain:

Important!

Margin VAT invoice

Important!

VAT invoice of a small taxpayer

RR VAT invoice

What the RR VAT invoice must contain:

Important!

Invoice of a taxpayer exempt from VAT

Important!

Pro forma invoice

Simplified invoice

What a simplified invoice must contain:

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