With vast changes in VAT compliance and reporting regulations sweeping across the globe, companies need to strategically evaluate their approach to compliance to ensure they stay up-to-date and minimize the risk of errors, fines, penalties and even operational shutdowns. But companies often overlook an important component in selecting a proactive, intelligent approach to VAT compliance […]
Mandatory eInvoicing in Costa Rica is becoming a reality in 2018. Initially targeted toward service providers, Costa Rica is rolling out the requirement to additional companies later this year, and they must prepare now for the change in processes and operations. Summary of the Law In late 2017, Costa Rica announced mandatory eInvoicing for service […]
La mayoría de los países que imponen un mandato de facturación electrónica requieren que los contribuyentes informen no solo las facturas emitidas, sino también las facturas electrónicas recibidas por parte de sus proveedores. Dado que el requisito de facturación electrónica de Colombia llega a todos los contribuyentes antes del 1 de enero de 2019 y […]
La Dirección de Impuestos y Aduanas Nacionales (DIAN) emitió una nueva resolución 000010/2018 el 6 de febrero que requiere que los grandes contribuyentes emitan y presenten facturas electrónicas antes del 1 de septiembre de 2018. En Colombia, esta resolución era esperada ya que la DIAN había emitido un borrador de la misma en el último […]
Costa Rica is currently in the process of transitioning to mandatory e-invoicing by 2019. The use of e-invoicing will help the Costa Rican government strive toward its goal of digital inclusion, but also help combat tax evasion by optimising tax controls. Its strategy will place it alongside other Latin American countries, including Mexico, Brazil, and […]
Real-time electronic audits are increasingly common throughout Latin America, requiring companies to maintain 100% accuracy in their electronic documents and record-keeping. This process all starts with the eInvoice – audits are triggered if an invoice isn’t submitted correctly or if it is inconsistent with eAccounting reports and other electronic filings from a company’s buyers and […]
Brazil’s eInvoicing and electronic reporting measures are undergoing a major overhaul in 2018. Companies that are not already in compliance with the new eInvoicing schema, NFe version 4.0, and REINF, a new digital bookkeeping requirement, need to update their processes immediately, as the deadlines for each are imminent. The new specifications for Brazil’s eInvoicing schema, […]
Many companies may consider government-mandated eInvoicing regulations a hassle, requiring them to revamp time-tested processes and upgrade to new technologies while adding new responsibilities and risk throughout the organization. However, eInvoicing can ultimately deliver business benefits, reducing costs, streamlining workflows and driving ROI. Consider these top 6 positive impacts of eInvoicing: Reducing costs – In […]
Introduced in 2010, eInvoicing in Peru is undergoing a major shift in 2018, reaching an increasing number of taxpayers and requiring an entirely new technical structure. Summary of the Peru eInvoicing Law Peru’s new and updated regulations expand the universe of taxpayers mandated to comply with electronic invoicing in that country. In this context, Peru […]
In theory, VAT collection should be a neutral event for companies, since the tax is born and paid for by the consumer. However, with a significant value of taxes passing through your company, VAT can be a major liability if it is not claimed, collected and settled properly. Companies often view VAT as nothing more […]
During the past couple of years, Colombia has been implementing a Clearance-type e-invoicing mandate, much in line with trends that we have seen across the world. The speed in which DIAN, the Colombian tax authority, has introduced changes and rolled out the mandate is much higher than average, with momentum only having been overtaken by […]
One of the key challenges within e-invoicing is to keep your processes and systems compliant at all times. Guaranteeing compliance is not easy. As we say here at Sovos, “regulation constantly evolves; VAT requirements are moving targets and there is no such thing as being half compliant”. One of the biggest mistakes enterprises make is […]
The Colombian tax administration (DIAN) issued a new resolution 000010/2018 on February 6th that requires large taxpayers to issue and report electronic invoices by September 1, 2018. This resolution was widely expected in Colombia since the DIAN already issued a draft of it in the last quarter in 2017, where it asked for feedback from […]
Finding potential errors or missing data before filing VAT forms is essential to efficient VAT compliance and reporting, but this process is often left to manual, random and selective processes. These ad hoc data checks simply aren’t enough when it comes to ensuring accurate VAT compliance in a changing regulatory landscape requiring real-time data sharing […]
Tax evasion is a costly problem that has impacted virtually every Latin American country. According to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which looked at studies of evasion rates, tax non-compliance cost countries an estimated US $340 billion in 2015. To combat this issue, governments across Latin America and around the […]
Brazil, Chile, Mexico and other Latin American countries have been on the bleeding edge of technology-driven value-added tax (VAT) initiatives for more than a decade. These countries have set the stage for similar compliance and reporting requirements that are now sweeping across more than 30 European countries. Businesses operating in Europe have a distinct benefit. […]
In the complex and ever-changing landscape of VAT Compliance and Reporting, automation is critical to drive operational simplification, cost reduction, audit risks mitigation and capability acquisition. “Routine tasks do need to be automated, but for the purpose of freeing up people to explore new approaches to create even more value.” This statement from a June […]
Tras anunciar a fines de 2016 el mayor cambio en su esquema de facturación electrónica en años, México también anunció una importante actualización de su mandato de contabilidad electrónica en enero de 2017. A pesar de que el SAT, la autoridad fiscal mexicana, no anunció un cronograma específico de implementación de eContabilidad 1.3, tomó a […]