Coalition partners include digital reporting and no VAT hikes in negotiations Following the inconclusive German government elections, the SPD, Free Democratic Party (FDP) and Green Party have drawn-up a range of tax policies for their potential coalition. This includes digital reporting of transactions – an
Real-time invoice reporting phased to pre-filled VAT returns plans suspended Hungary first introduced live invoice reporting in July 2018 for B2B transactions above HUF 100,000. The regime has since been extended to all transactions – B2C consumer (April 2021) and the threshold withdrawn (June 2020).
Global pioneer in electronic invoicing now being copied around the world Chile’s Servicio de Impuestos (SII) tax authority introduced its VAT electronic invoice regime in 2001, and mandated it for most taxpayers from March 2018. DTE (Documentos Tributarios Electrónicos) covers a total of ten various
Electronic invoicing 2021 phased introduction Albania has rolled out its mandatory electronic invoice regime in 2021 in the following stages: 1 Jan 2021 – B2G transactions 1 Jul 2021 – B2B transactions 1 Sep 2021 – B2C transactions Eligible taxpayers must use government certified invoice
Sales e-invoice reporting goes ahead; purchase reporting to follow from 1 Jan 2022 Greece’s Ministry of Finance and Greek tax office, AADE, started the voluntary the rollout of its VAT transactional reporting from 1 July 2021 via e-invoice and e-book reporting. Sales invoice reporting started
Full Egyptian B2B invoicing by April 2023 The Egyptian Tax Authority (ETA) has been phasing in its mandatory electronic invoicing regime, starting 15 November 2020 with over 100 large (‘senior’) taxpayers. This was extended to medium and smaller enterprises and will be completed before 15
Electronic invoices in two phases: Introduction (Dec 2021); and Integration (Jan 2023) Saudi Arabia is implementing the requirement for B2B electronic invoices for VAT transactions by resident businesses from 4 December 2021. Taxpayers will not have to submit full e-invoices (FATOORAH) to the ZATCA tax
Live pre-clearance invoicing to help reduce the VAT Gap The Bulgarian National Revenue Agency has opened a public consultation on the implementation of e-invoicing. Any implementation date is unlikely to be before 2023. This follows the successes in Italy, Hungary and plans for Poland and
Electronic invoicing to combat €3.6 billion in missing VAT The Belgian budget in October included a provision for the phased introduction of electronic invoicing for Business-to-Business transactions. Check VAT Calc’s global live VAT invoice transaction and e-invoice reporting tracker to see where else real-time submissions of invoices
Government pre-clearance electronic invoicing Bolivia’s National Tax Service’s (SIN) has recommenced its plans to implement mandatory e-invoicing – Sistema De Facturacion Electronica (SFE) – from 1 December 2021. The SFE e-invoice roll out had been paused in May 2021 due to the COVID-19 crisis. SIN has
