1. Step 1 - Enjoy your shopping: Make purchases at any store and request invoices addressed to Skiptax.
2. Skiptax is the first online french tax refund system approved by the french government.
3. Step 2 - Upload your invoices: Take pictures of your invoices and upload them onto the Skiptax app.
4. It's Tax-free shopping on your mobile made easy.
5. Get the VAT on your purchases in France refunded.
6. Available for non-EU residents from all over the world.
7. Step 4 - Get your refund: Get confirmation of your refund within minutes of scanning your customs-validated tax-free form at the airport. ยท No paper handling and queuing in store or at the airport.
1. This was incorrect as it needs scanning in the Duty Free shop and when I was given this information , I was unable to go to the Duty Free shop as I'd passed through border control and couldn't get bavk and therefore list my tax refund.
2. The terminals were easy to find at eurotunnel but it was clear that many people had issues trying to set the app up as there were two families standing around the terminals to see if anyone could help them.Great App, easy to use.
3. Refund was in my French bank that day minus small amount for bank charges... Bit of a faff to set up (passport photo etc.) but straightforward.
4. Makes it very easy to get tax back.Very easy once its all set up, just make sure you have invoice for skip tax and got refund in 24 hrs after trip.
5. The whole procedure is slightly complicated, but straightforward enough to earn a 30 euros refund!Straight forward, did not know about passport and selfie until received an email, I maybe just missed.
6. Took photo of invoice (make sure the invoice is correctly "named" and have a network connection for the upload / download) to get the bar code.
7. That's quite annoying especially when comes the time of scanning the at the border.The app is great and easy to use.
8. I used the processing terminals at Calais port and these were reasonably clearly indicated, just before you join the lanes to embark on the ferry.
9. All good eauldy to upload receipts.The app itself can be a bit buggy from time to time.
10. The OCR on receipts sometimes works very well, sometimes not The important part of it is that you do get 80% of the VAT back, and it's very speedy, so the service is really recommended.
11. However for some reasons, the app keeps losing my information, prompting again and again to enter my logon / password.