2025 budget ends COVID VAT cut to 9% for restaurant and catering services The Bulgarian 2025 budget has withdrawn the temporary reduced VAT rate of 9% on restaurant services from 1 January 2025. The measure was first introduced in July 2020. The cut also included
2026-30 National Revenue Agency launches Standard Audit File for Tax monthly transaction reporting Bulgaria is preparing to join other countries implementing SAF-T, the OECD-backed standard schema for the exchange of information between tax payers and authorities. The launch timetable is as follows: Jan 2026: large enterprises
Annual threshold for mandatory VAT registration rises to BGN 166,000 from 1 January 2025 Bulgaria’s Parliament is reviewing a rise in the annual VAT registration threshold from 1 January 2025. It will increase from the current BGN 100,000 (approx. €51,000) to BGN 166,000 (approx. €85,000).
2025 – Many businesses taken out of the intra-community reporting requirement Bulgaria has raised the annual reporting thresholds for Intrastat for January 2025. Intrastat is EU-wide (usually) monthly reporting regime for businesses to report the movement of goods between EU states. It is split between
Special scheme for small businesses; new fixed asset and stocks reporting; place of supply live streaming events On 18 September 2024, the Bulgarian Ministry of Finance (MOF) published a proposal for amendments to the Value Added Tax (VAT) Act, aimed at introducing special VAT regimes
VAT compliance and reporting rules in Bulgaria 2024 Below is summary of the major rules provided under Bulgarian VAT rules (VAT Act of 2007; Regulation for the Application of the VAT Act), plus adoption of EU VAT Directive provisions. Check our country VAT guides for
Option for import VAT payment postponement 1 January 2024 Bulgaria is the latest EU member state to offer taxpayers the option to bypass the obligation to pay import VAT at the point of clearing goods into the country. Instead, they can make the payment by
New quarterly reporting of cash and receivables from Nov 2023 Bulgaria’s 2023 Budget has imposed a new quarterly report for all VAT registered businesses to declare cash holdings and certain receivables. The submissions must be made by the end of the month following the reporting
Cuts to newspapers, hotels and basic foods Bulgaria has gazetted various changes to the VAT Act to cut rates permanently and temporarily on a range of supplies. VAT rate changes The updates include: Newspapers and journals are reduced from 22% standard rate to the 9%
Raised reporting threshold for intra-community supplies reporting Bulgaria is the first EU country to announce an annual uplifting of its reporting threshold for Intrastat, the EU-wide reporting regime for intra-movement of goods. Only taxpayers exceeding these thresholds of shipping goods between EU states are obliged
