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I am planning to digitalizes my receipts, because manually keeping and filing them is taking a toll on me. I'm planning to get them scanned, or camera'ed into PDF/image files and store them somewhere on the cloud.

The issue is, is it acceptable to produce a scanned document for the income tax examination purpose?

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That will probably depend on the country. In New Zealand, for example, you need to store receipts in their original form. If you got a paper receipt, you need to store that, but if you bought something on the Internet and got a digital receipt then a digital copy is ok.

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if that were the case there is no point in digitalizing the receipts anymore, since the digital documents can't be used anyway, isn't it? – Graviton Sep 28 '10 at 8:55
Well it depends is his answer, which for legal questions is normally accurate. So some jurisdictions the digital reciept is sufficient. – John Bogrand Sep 28 '10 at 16:04

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