MyGST
Automated GST filing and tax management tool designed specifically for New Zealand sole traders and small businesses.
The Challenge
GST compliance in New Zealand is a significant burden for sole traders and small business owners who lack accounting backgrounds — tracking expenses and sales, keeping receipts, and calculating a GST position by hand is time-consuming and error-prone.
Removing the Manual Work From GST Tracking
For a sole trader without an accounting background, the tedious part of GST isn't the maths — it's capturing every receipt and expense consistently enough that the maths is even possible. MyGST starts there.
Receipts In, Data Out
A photographed or uploaded receipt goes through Gemini 2.0 Flash for OCR, extracting the amount, date, and vendor automatically rather than requiring manual entry for every expense.
A Running Position, Not a Quarterly Scramble
Because expenses and sales are tracked as they happen, a user's GST position is always current — the return isn't a once-a-period reconstruction job, it's a report generated from data that's already there.
Built for NZ Filing
Reports are formatted to match what's needed for IRD filing, so the output of using MyGST day-to-day is also the input to the actual return.
Our Solution
MyGST lets a user upload receipts directly and uses Gemini-powered OCR to extract the expense data automatically, alongside manual expense and sales tracking, to calculate a running GST position and produce IRD-ready reports.
Tech Stack
Results
- Receipts upload directly and are read automatically via Gemini-powered OCR — no manual data entry
- Running GST position calculated continuously from tracked expenses and sales
- IRD-ready reports exportable when it's time to file
- Receipt files stored via Vercel Blob, tied to each tracked expense