An 18-year-old first-time small business owner cannot figure out how to properly document and store invoices as proof of business expenses for tax purposes, especially when receipts are not provided and bank statements only show monthly summaries.

Workarounds Described

• asking AI for advice on documenting invoices
• planning to print invoice and monthly bank statement and highlight it

Implied Software Gaps

• Mobile app that combines invoice capture with transaction-level bank statement matching and tax-ready reporting

TaxProof Expense Manager

A mobile-first app that helps young small business owners automatically capture, categorize, and store receipts and invoices with bank statement linking. It uses OCR to read invoices, matches transactions to bank statements, and generates a downloadable tax-ready expense report with highlighted proof.