Regulatory Analysis

The tax administration of Uruguay (DGI) has informed the latest versions of the technical standard, and the XSD of the electronic invoice that previously were in testing status, are now being considered as officially published, meaning that they are now in production mode. The new version can be found here.

The Costa Rican tax administration has released a project of New Version 4.4 of the Electronic Invoice of the Country. This project of a new version would become effective (probably) in January or February 2022 if approved as originally proposed.

The Ministry of Healthcare of Colombia (MINISTRO DE SALUD Y PROTECCIÓN SOCIAL) has issued a new resolution postponing the effective date for the implementation of the technical documentation related to the electronic invoice for the health care sector. Based on the provisions of Art. 1 Resolution 506/2021 as modified by the provisions of Resolution 1526/2021, […]

The Ministry of Finance has withdrawn its draft regulation, submitted to the Slovenian parliament in June 2021, which, if passed, would introduce mandatory B2B e-invoicing in the country. According to the draft regulation, all business entities would be obliged to exchange e-invoices exclusively in their mutual transactions (B2B). In the case of B2C transactions, consumers […]

The draft law for the creation and growth of companies introducing mandatory B2B e-invoices for companies and freelancers in the country has been approved by the Government and now will continue its legislative process in Congress. The obligation for taxpayers above a certain threshold may be in force as early as February 2023 if the draft law […]

The FatturaPA was expected to replace the Esterometro in January 2022. However, a last-minute addition to the country’s 2022 budget law might postpone the requirement until July 2022. The legislative process is ongoing, which means that the postponement is possible, but not officially decided.

In an earlier post a few weeks ago, we wrote about how the recent German elections seem to have accelerated the country’s move towards a digital real-time VAT control system. In the coalition deal concluded on 24 November 2021, the new coalition government has identified VAT fraud as a policy question it intends to combat, […]

The Turkish Revenue Administration (TRA) published a Draft Communique that includes significant changes to the Tax Procedure Law General Communique No. 509, which initially aimed to unify all e-document regulations when it was published in October 2019. With the Draft Communique, the TRA will lower the current gross sales revenue threshold for mandatory e-fatura and […]

The Bolivian tax administration of Bolivia (SNI) has issued the Resolution RND-102100000011, which regulates the new invoicing regime of the country. This new provision not only establishes the regulatory framework for electronic invoices, but also for all other types of physical invoices and the conditions for issuance, delivery, validation and archiving of those documents. According […]

The tax administration of Paraguay (SET) has issued a new resolution 95/2021 establishing the deadlines for certain taxpayers to start issuing electronic invoices and for others to join to the voluntary program that has been running for a while. According to this new resolution, all taxpayers that are part of the pilot program as indicated […]

According to Resolution 279/2019, the Peruvian tax administration (SUNAT) requires taxpayers with revenues over a certain threshold to start issuing electronic invoices and receipts. For most taxpayers, that obligation began on 1 January 2021; however, small to medium taxpayers with annual revenues between 23 and 75 Fiscal Units (1,008 to 75,600 US dollars) will have […]

The Peruvian tax administration has issued a new resolution 150-2021/SUNAT postponing until January 1, 2022, the new two days deadline for the remittance of the electronic invoice and the corresponding credit or debit notes to the SUNAT or the OSE. During December, there will be two temporary deadlines for the remittance of the electronic invoice […]

The Argentinean tax administration (AFIP) has released a draft of the new technical documentation for the Electronic Invoice for Export. Compared with previous version 1.8.0, the purpose of this update is to include version 2 of the simplified export functionality. Along with this change, the following codes have been deprecated: 2000, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2024, […]

According to Resolution RND 10210000012, starting December 1, 2021, all large taxpayers of Bolivia (Locally known as PRICOS) plus those mentioned explicitly by Resolution 1021000017 will be required to comply with the new electronic invoicing mandate of the country. Bolivia has three categories of taxpayers, PRICOS (Around 100 taxpayers), GRACOS (Around 2000), and RESTO (All […]

The Ministry of Healthcare of Colombia (Ministerio de Salud y Proteccion Social) has issued a new resolution postponing the effective date for the implementation of the technical documentation related to the electronic invoice for the health care sector. Based on the provisions of Art. 1 Resolution 506/2021 as modified by the provisions of Resolution 1526/2021, […]

The Argentinean tax administration (AFIP) informed that the implementation of the electronic bill of transport (locally known as Carta Porte) required to transfer agricultural products has started. According to the Joint Resolution 5017/2021 issued by the AFIP and the ministries of Security, Transportation, and Agriculture, the mandatory use of the Carta Porte will start on […]

The Latvian government approved a report prepared by the Ministry of Finance on the implementation of an electronic invoicing system in the country. The concept expressed in the report envisages the introduction of the use of electronic invoicing as mandatory for B2B and B2G transactions from 2025 in accordance with the PEPPOL framework. Changes in […]

There have been developments with respect to the B2G e-invoicing system in Romania – e-Factura -, which soon will affect also B2B e-invoicing in the country. As reported earlier, the Romanian government has been working on the launch of a pilot B2G e-invoicing system, called e-Factura, to bring B2G e-invoicing in line with the EU […]