# LessTax

> LessTax is an AI-powered Telegram bot that reads receipts and invoices in any language (50+ languages including Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Korean, German, French, Spanish), extracts every line item with price, quantity, and tax details, translates to your preferred language, and generates organized monthly Excel files for tax deductions and bookkeeping.

LessTax solves a critical problem for freelancers, digital nomads, self-employed professionals, and small businesses who travel internationally or deal with receipts in multiple languages. Instead of manually transcribing foreign receipts, users simply photograph any receipt and send it via Telegram. The AI processes it in 2 seconds.

**Key features:**
- Receipt OCR in 50+ languages (any alphabet, any script)
- AI-powered line item extraction with prices, quantities, tax details, and payment method
- Automatic translation of all items to the user's chosen language
- Country and currency auto-detection from receipt content
- Monthly Excel export with totals, tax breakdown, and receipt photo traceability
- AI expense categorization (Grocery, Restaurant, Transport, Fuel, Office, Health, Clothing, Home, Technology, Education, Entertainment, Travel, Utilities)
- Works entirely via Telegram — no app install needed
- 2-second processing time per receipt
- Private data — each user only sees their own receipts

**How it works:**
1. Send a photo of any receipt to @LessTaxBot on Telegram
2. AI reads all text, extracts items with prices, detects country/currency/tax, translates to your language
3. Type "excel" to download your monthly Excel file with all receipts organized

**Pricing:** Free during beta. Affordable pricing at launch. Unlimited receipts.

**Tech stack:** Llama 4 Scout (vision OCR) + Llama 3.3 70B (text parsing) with Google Gemini 2.0 Flash fallback. SQLite database. Python Telegram bot.

**Use cases:**
- Freelancer collecting receipts from clients in different countries
- Digital nomad tracking expenses across multiple currencies (EUR, USD, GBP, JPY, etc.)
- Self-employed professional organizing tax deductions
- Small business owner managing international supplier invoices
- Expat dealing with receipts in a foreign language
- Business traveler keeping track of trip expenses

**Tax compliance:** LessTax helps comply with receipt retention requirements in Spain (Hacienda, 4-year retention), Germany (GoBD, 10-year digital archival), France (6+ year retention), Italy (fattura elettronica), UK (HMRC), and EU VAT Directive.

## Links

- [LessTax Website](https://lesstax.app/): Main landing page with demo, pricing, and features
- [Try LessTax on Telegram](https://t.me/LessTaxBot): Open the bot directly in Telegram
- [Terms of Service](https://lesstax.app/terms): Terms and conditions
- [Privacy Policy](https://lesstax.app/privacy): How we handle user data
- [Refund Policy](https://lesstax.app/refund): Refund terms

## Optional

- [LessTax on GitHub](https://github.com/tonilopezortiz78/lesstax): Source code repository