No engagement letter, no minimum volume, no percentage of the refund.
Taxback International is a managed-service VAT recovery provider headquartered in Kilkenny, Ireland, founded 1996. Taxback International (often shortened to Taxback) handles cross-border VAT reclaim and global business expense recovery for corporates, on a managed-service model. The standard model: an engagement letter, an account manager, and a percentage of every refund.
Taxback International vs Eitoo, line by line
Same scope of work — extract invoices, classify against directive articles, run compliance gates, assemble the submission package. What differs is the structure of the engagement.
Dimension
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Pricing
Engagement letter, minimum volumes, and a success fee scaled to recovered amounts.
Flat platform fee disclosed before commit. No minimum, no engagement letter.
Workflow
You hand over the invoices and wait — months for the package to be assembled and submitted.
Continuous on-upload classification. The submission package is ready every quarter.
Speed
A managed account: their analysts touch your invoices, and a relationship manager fronts the work.
Software handles the mechanical classification. You file the package yourself.
Data control
Operations span multiple regions. Data residency depends on which back-office handles the case.
EU-resident only. Compute and database in Frankfurt; sub-processor list public on /privacy.
Audit trail
Reports are formatted for their workflow, exported when requested.
Per-invoice audit trail traces every decision to a specific directive article (e.g. §5(2)(a)).
See your number first. Then evaluate.
Drop your annual cross-border spend below — the calculator runs against the same EU mid-market deductibility model Eitoo uses on every invoice. No signup, no email required.
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.
Who Eitoo is the right call for
Finance teams who can run the submission portal themselves and would rather pay a flat platform fee than hand a percentage of every recovery to a managed-service vendor.
Worth 30 seconds to verify the number on three of your real invoices.