📒 Bookkeeping Live
The groundwork so every other feature has clean data to reason about.
Multiple business profilesSole trader and limited company supported, with VAT number, country, currency and fiscal-year settings.
Manual transactionsAdd income and expenses with description, supplier, gross, VAT rate, category and subcategory.
CSV bank importAuto-detects common Irish bank column headers (AIB, BOI, Revolut, Wise).
Open Banking (PSD2)Connect banks via GoCardless Bank Account Data (ex-Nordigen). 2000+ institutions across IE/UK/EU. Daily auto-sync.
Receipt OCRUpload a photo or a PDF, GPT-4o Vision extracts date, supplier, amount, VAT and files it to the right transaction.
Document storeEvery receipt, invoice and letter kept for the full Irish 6-year retention window. Free-text search, category filters.
Nordigen consent renewalAuto warning banner 14 days before the 90-day PSD2 re-auth, one-click re-authorise button.
🧾 Filing & returns Live
Every Irish return Revenue asks for, pre-filled from your data with a readiness checklist before you file.
VAT3 draft + detail viewAuto-computed T1 / T2 / T3 / T4 for any bimester, transaction-level drill-down.
VAT3 pre-submit checklistSix readiness checks (receipts, suppliers, categories, duplicates, VAT sanity, period volume) before you hit "Mark as filed".
ROS XML + CSV + PDF exportCopy the big numbers into ROS or upload the XML directly.
Form 11 deep pre-fillSole-trader income tax return with YTD profit, capital allowances and tax calculation.
CT1 deep pre-fillCorporation-tax return with director payroll, capital items and preliminary-tax hints.
Form 11 / CT1 pre-submit checklistsSame readiness treatment, adapted to annual returns (home-office profile set, capital items on register, no high-severity issues).
Form catalogueTR1, TR2, Form 11, CT1, RTD — completion tracker and "open ROS" deep link on every filing.
🔥 Deadlines & reminders Live
A full-year view plus a reminder ladder so you never discover a deadline the day after it's due.
Deadline heatmap12-month grid covering VAT3, Form 11, CT1, preliminary tax, CRO B1 and custom renewals. Year-navigation and per-month drill-down.
Reminder ladderEscalating banners and emails at 30 / 15 / 7 / 2 / 1 days and overdue for every VAT3 deadline.
Subscription renewal trackerAdd domain, hosting, insurance and SaaS renewals with a due month — they show up in the heatmap alongside tax deadlines.
Compliance hubAuspicious + overdue returns at the top of the page with the exact filing steps.
💰 Coaching & safety Live
Vatrax doesn't just record what you do — it tells you what you forgot and what will get you in trouble.
Safety score0–100 composite score with a ranked "what should I do next" action list.
Rule engineVAT rates, deductibility heuristics, reverse-charge logic and Ireland-specific home-office subcategories.
Anomaly detectorNightly scan for missing receipts, blank suppliers, personal-looking merchants, duplicates, VAT inconsistencies, commuting and capital misclass.
"You forgot something"Detects home-office claim without broadband, broadband without electricity or phone, limited company without payroll, VAT-registered without a VAT3 this year.
Too-risky guardrailBlocks implausible claims (e.g. 100% rent as home office, 100% of a family phone bill, client meals as deductible) and warns on marginal ones.
Can-I-afford-this checkEnter a gross price and Vatrax returns VAT reclaim, tax saving, real out-of-pocket cost and a 30-day cashflow sanity check before you buy.
Audit risk scoreExplainable 0–100 risk score with the specific flags that moved it.
Peer benchmarksTypical claims for developers, designers, agencies, consultants, delivery drivers and e-commerce — your data next to the peer midpoint.
📬 Revenue CRM Live
The full history of every interaction you've ever had with Revenue — "not just your tax records, your complete history with Revenue".
Case timelineLog every email, ROS message, letter, phone call, video meeting, office meeting or on-site visit with contact person, date-time and file attachments.
Step-by-step playbookReminder / document request / audit / penalty / other — each with a Do and Don't list and a walkthrough.
AI reply draftsVatrax writes a polite, factual first draft of your reply using your transactions and profile.
AI suggest next actionOne click and the LLM reads the whole case and proposes a concrete next action + realistic due date.
14-day follow-up nagIf the case is open with no outbound message for 14 days, Vatrax banners a follow-up reminder.
Visit-prep checklistAuto-shown for office / video / on-site meetings — bring the summary, receipts, timeline, written notes.
Case pack PDFOne-click printable timeline of the whole case for the accountant or the next Revenue agent.
📦 Audit pack & year-end Live
Everything you need to hand to an accountant in December or a Revenue agent in April.
Audit pack ZIPAll receipts + transactions + business info for a given period, bundled into a single file.
Year-end packYTD profit, estimated tax, net VAT, expenses by category, capital items register, outstanding issues and a "you may still save €X before 31 Dec" panel with action list.
Printable packOne-click clean print view in a new tab.
🌱 Life events & new arrivals Live
Big life changes trigger tax actions. Vatrax turns each one into a concrete 30-day checklist.
Life-events wizardMoved to Ireland, got married, had a child, went freelance, opened a limited company, quit your job, bought a house, closed a business — 8 starters with hardcoded Irish checklists.
Registered-office wizard"Home / virtual office / rented" picker with CRO-public warning and KB-linked guidance on apartment home-office claims.
Onboarding checklist5-step setup wizard so brand-new users don't miss the essentials.
🏗️ Capital & long-life assets Live
Laptops, phones, vehicles and equipment handled the Revenue way.
Capital allowances wizard12.5% × 8-year schedule for plant and machinery, with vehicle, device and training sub-rules.
BIK flag for company carsAuto-flagged when a vehicle looks company-owned.
Capital-item nudges"You're expensing a €1,800 laptop — this should be a capital item" reminders.
📚 Knowledge base & blog Live
A single structured source of truth that powers the blog, the in-app tips and the chatbot.
Structured KB entriesIreland entries for broadband, electricity, phone, vehicle, meals, VAT threshold, VAT3, Form 11, CT1, sole-trader vs ltd, preliminary tax, 6-year retention, reverse charge, audit response, new-to-Ireland, registered office, apartment home office.
Daily SEO blogA new article published every morning at 06:30 UTC to getvatrax.com/blog, grounded in the verified knowledge entries via RAG.
RAG searchSemantic search across every article using OpenAI embeddings.
Beginner mode + helpGlossary, FAQ and task-based checklists for anyone new to Irish tax.
🧭 Personal productivity Live
Small tools that compound into a very good memory.
Business diaryDay-by-day log of who you met, where you went and what you bought. Context that wins an audit two years later.
Future-you notesPinned reminders for next-year-you ("broadband is in John's name, not the company").
Dashboard "What's up"Pinned notes, open life events, next 90 days of deadlines and the latest diary entry surfaced as a single panel.
Global active-business switcherOne dropdown in the sidebar scopes every page to the business you're actually working on.
🌐 Roadmap Coming
Honest list of what we're building next.
Translation packRevenue-letter translation to Vietnamese, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Ukrainian and Dutch via self-hosted M2M-100 and faster-whisper.
Voice explainTap to have a deadline or reminder read aloud in your language via Piper TTS.
SMS Deadline GuardianEscalating SMS reminders, not just banners and emails.
Accountant reviewA real Irish accountant checks your monthly reports before you file.
Team seats for accountantsInvite, RBAC and commentary for practices managing multiple clients.