comprobante de pago

English translation: invoice

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Spanish term or phrase:	comprobante de pago
English translation:	invoice
Entered by:	Teressa Weaver

00:47 Mar 8, 2016

Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Law/Patents - Law: Contract(s) / Lease Agreement

Spanish term or phrase: comprobante de pago

This is a lease agreement for office space in Lima, Peru. This is found in the section about lease payment.

El comprobante de pago por la Renta será emitido en Dólares Americanos de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y presentado a "LA ARRENDATARIA" dentro de los primeros diez (10) días calendarios del mes, para su pago por parte de "LA ARRENDATARIA" dentro de los quince (15) días calendarios siguientes.

My attempt:
Proof of payment (receipt) for the Rent shall be issued in American Dollars of the United States of North America and delivered to "THE LESSEE" within the first ten (10) calendar days of the month, for payment by "THE LESSEE" with the fifteen (15) following calendar days.

I'm not sure why the Lessee is issuing a receipt at all. Or, if it is an error in the source text and should be Lessor, why the Lessor is issuing a receipt before receiving payment. In Peru is "comprobante de pago" used for invoice, also?

This image seems to suggest that "comprobantes de pago" can be many things in Peru. http://es.slideshare.net/palaciosquispeguadalupe/informatica...

I did check the other entries in ProZ about comprobantes de pago and all seem to point toward receipt or proof of purchase.

Teressa Weaver KudoZ activity Questions: 47 (none open) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 38
Local time: 19:18

invoice

Explanation:
Obviously this cannot be a receipt; that doesn't make sense in the context, because it precedes payment rather than following it. This is a document sent to the lessee/tenant requesting payment of rent, and then the lessee/tenant pays the rent. So it's an invoice.

In Peru "comprobante de pago" is a generic term for a payment document, including "facturas": invoices. Here is Article 2 of the SUNAT regulations:

" Artículo 2º.- DOCUMENTOS CONSIDERADOS COMPROBANTES DE PAGO
Sólo se consideran comprobantes de pago, siempre que cumplan con todas las características y requisitos mínimos establecidos en el presente reglamento, los siguientes:
a) Facturas.
b) Recibos por honorarios.
c) Boletas de venta.
d) Liquidaciones de compra.
e) Tickets o cintas emitidos por máquinas registradoras.
f) Los documentos autorizados en el numeral 6 del artículo 4º.
g) Otros documentos que por su contenido y sistema de emisión permitan un adecuado control tributario y se encuentren expresamente autorizados, de manera previa, por la SUNAT.
h) Comprobante de Operaciones – Ley N° 29972."
http://www.sunat.gob.pe/legislacion/comprob/#

So in Peru "comprobante de pago" is a "payment document": a document recording any aspect of a transaction, and not just a proof of payment (that is, proof that a payment has already been made), which is what a receipt is.

It's perhaps worth recalling that "recibo" in Spanish (not just in Peru) is not invariably a receipt either. A recibo de la luz is an electricity bill: it's issued as a demand for payment, not an acknowledgement of payment.
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/spanish_to_english/finance_general...

But although "receipt" is sometimes used like that in English, a receipt in the context of rental is invariably a document given by the landlord to the tenant after the rent's been paid, to acknowledge that it's been paid. And that, obviously, is not what this is. So I think you should call it an invoice, which is what it is.

http://www.invoicetemp.com/sample-of-excel-house-rent-invoic...

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By the way, a rent payment voucher can mean various things but as far as I know this term is not applied to a request for payment or notice of payment due.

Selected response from:

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 02:18

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Thanks for your clear and comprehensive response.
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Summary of answers provided

4 +4

payment receipt

Francois Boye

4 +2

invoice

Charles Davis

4 +1

Payment voucher

Seth Phillips

rent demand

AllegroTrans

Effectual proof of payment made (by the tenant)

Adrian MM. (X)

Discussion entries: 7

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4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

payment receipt

Explanation:
my take

Francois Boye
United States
Local time: 20:18
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 68

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Asker: Thank you for your response.

30 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Payment voucher

Explanation:
My suggestion. Javier Becerra lists these synonyms in his dictionary under "Comprobante/Constancia de Pago": receipt, proof of payment, evidence of payment, proof of purchase, acknowledgement of payment, discharge, release, signed release.

"Proof of payment" is fine as you proposed in your text and is also confirmed by Thomas West in his renowned law and business dictionary.

In Latin American countries, as well as others, it's common for a lessee to pay rent via deposit to a bank account and afterwards issue a receipt or proof of payment. That is a way for the lessor to know that the payment showing in his/her account that said payment was generated by the lessee.

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"Deposit slip" is another option that could work

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http://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deposit-slip.asp

Reference: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/payment-voucher...

Seth Phillips
United States
Local time: 20:18
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 32

Notes to answerer

Asker: I think you have supplied the step that I was missing -- payment being received via bank deposit and then a receipt being issued. Thank you.

8 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

invoice

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 02:18
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 451

Grading comment

Thanks for your clear and comprehensive response.

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thank you for your response. It is very helpful.

11 hrs confidence:

rent demand

Explanation:
I do not want in any way to contradict Charles's answer, but just suggest this as an alternative.

AllegroTrans
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:18
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 577

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thank you for your response.

20 hrs confidence:

(Pe) comprobante de pago Effectual proof of payment made (by the tenant)

Explanation:
Payment made should get round the Lessee-issued conundrum.

Effectual - because, the other way round in EN law, the landlord will issue an effectual receipt and discharge.

Reference: http://www.proz.com/?sp=gloss/term&id=18103654

Adrian MM. (X)
Local time: 02:18
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 547

Notes to answerer

Asker: Interesting take. Thank you for responding.

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