How to put in a declaration

When you buy something on your own account that should actually have been paid by the company (f.e. study budget stuff, birthday present for your colleague, etc.) or you have made business travel expenses to declare you can put in a declaration. This is the way to do it.

Find the right form

You log in to 🔢NMBRS (app) with your personal account (via the app is the easiest, so you can easily take a picture of the invoice which you then convert to PDF (f.e. by LightPDF or for Appl users: select the picture, tap the “Share” button > “Print” > “Share” icon > “Save to Files” to choose where you want to save the photo as a PDF here.) and send it with the declaration. Please note that the file must not be larger than 10MB Then select your "declaration form" and after that "new declaration". There you can opt for travel costs or other declaration expenses. When submitting a travel expense claim make sure you make a print screen of your trip that clearly shows the journey and the distance and convert this to PDF. Only then can the travel costs declaration be processed. Also note: it must be an invoice or receipt that you submit, a printout of your bank statement does not suffice and cannot be processed

Enter the info

After this selection, you enter the amount, a description and add the file of the invoice/receipt. The announcement under the declaration will be: pending approval manager. The declarations will be checked and completed before every 15th of the month. So make sure that the declaration is in the ordersheet before the 15th. When approved (it may be that additional information is requested), the payment of the declaration will take place with the salary payment. The amount can be found on your payslip.

The actual reimbursements

Every 15th of the month the declarations are checked and approved. This means that, for example, for the declaration period from 15 May to 14 June, will be included in the salary payment and the payslip of June. If a declaration is submitted on 16 June, it will be paid along with the salary payment of July.

A video to help you out

Here is an instruction video about installing the app and how to submit a declaration: https://support.nmbrs.nl/hc/nl/articles/205864488-Nmbrs-Mobile#topic_Video

More details: https://support.nmbrs.nl/hc/nl/articles/205864488-Nmbrs-Mobile#topic_Video

Rules of the game

It must be clear what the purchased item has been for/ what the need for the company has been. So make sure that this becomes very clear from the description within the declaration form. In addition, only declarations are processed where a PDF document is provided as an attachment. If the attachment is not a PDF document, the declaration will be returned to the colleague with the request to resubmit the invoice with a PDF attachment

Also The (working conditions) Council have determined the following rules regarding declaration of costs of field service colleagues:

• Coffee and lunches on the way: if it’s a business lunch you can declare the costs, if there is a personal component not. When Spys is open, field colleagues can declare their lunches on the go, when Spys is closed not.
• If you get in the car to go to a customer, the right to working-from-home allowance lapses.

The big order sheet

If you declare a purchase it still needs to be recorded in the Big Order Sheet, but you do not have to send the invoice to the bookkeeping system.

Closing the books in time & VAT

Note: receipts and invoices submitted as declarations must not be older than one month. We can no longer process receipts/invoices that are older and therefore these cannot be paid out. Also, please only submit a declaration when you cannot get an invoice in the name of the company. As a company, we cannot reclaim the VAT on a declaration. This means that the purchase is 21% more expensive than if you can purchase it directly through a company account.

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