'Receipts' for Prescription Tax Relief

inisfree0504

I've always held on to the prescription claim forms for the purposes of proving my entitlement to claim the 20% tax relief from Revenue. A pharmacist friend recently suggested that these would not be sufficient - the claim forms pertained only to the drugs payment scheme - and that I needed to keep the actual receipt given to me at the cash register. In the unlikely event that I was ever asked to produce receipts, does anyone know if claim forms are sufficient?

L1011

The DPS claim forms are the only receipt 99% of pharmacies give and often any till receipt just specifies a single line cost for "prescription" or similar and hence is pointless anyway. If you go get a private prescription off the DPS system the norm is to print a "DPS receipt" with PRIVATE printed over the number! This is how all three main pharmacy IT systems work (Helix, McLernons, Ocuco)

They are accepted by Revenue in audits; as are retrospective printouts from dispensing systems for when you've lost the DPS receipt. I actually suspect the till receipt wouldn't be due to lack of detail.

inisfree0504

That's exactly what I thought, thank you.