Regulatory Analysis

Romania introduced an e-Transport system, which will be used to monitor the transport of goods on the national territory. The Ministry of Finance has recently prepared a draft Emergency Ordinance (Ordinance) to clarify the details about the nature of the system, i.e., who would be impacted by it, when and how the system will work. […]

The Spanish Tax Authority AEAT has published a draft resolution establishing the requirements that must be adopted by computer or electronic systems and programs that support the billing processes of businesses and professionals. According to the draft regulation, taxpayers must have their operational computer systems compliant with the new requirements as of January 1, 2024. […]

The Tax Administration Service (SAT) has recently published the Second Resolution of Modifications to the Miscellaneous Fiscal Resolution for 2022, effectively postponing the entry into force of the latest CFDI version. According to this modification, the period of use of the current CFDI version 3.3, is extended until June 30, 2022, therefore, from July 1, […]

In October 2021, the Belgian Minister of Finance, Vincent Van Peteghem announced the government’s intention to extend the existing B2G e-invoicing obligation to cover also B2B transactions. Since then, no more details or formal information has been communicated by the government or relevant public authorities. Recent rumours circulating on the timeline for entry into force […]

In South Korea, e-invoicing has been mandatory for all corporate businesses since 2011. From 2012, individual businesses (entrepreneurs) have also been required to comply with e-invoicing obligations if they meet the threshold limits which have been updated a couple of times over the years. Currently, an individual business whose aggregate supply value (including transactions that […]

Resolution 105/2021 issued by the tax administration of Paraguay (SET) establishes the new schedule of implementation of the electronic invoice in that country. This new resolution substitutes the provisions of previous resolution 95/2021 establishing a new calendar for the deployment of the e-invoicing mandate using the SIFEN platform (National Integrated System of Electronic Invoicing). For […]

Towards the end of last year, the tax authority in Turkey published a draft communique that expands the scope of e-documents in Turkey. After minor revisions, the draft communique was enacted and published in the Official Gazette on 22 January 2022. With the communique, the current gross sales revenue threshold for mandatory e-fatura and e-delivery […]

We have previously reported that as of 1 July 2022, Romanian taxpayers will be required to use the CTC e-invoicing system e-factura (regardless of whether or not the recipients are registered in the Romanian e-Invoice register), for B2B transactions involving products with high fiscal risks. The National Agency For Fiscal Administration has today issued an […]

The legislation on the use of KSeF, which the Ministry of Finance presented in November as a draft regulation, was published in Poland’s Official Gazette on 30 December. The published regulation includes provisions regarding the following topics: Categories of authorizations Methods of granting, changing, or withdrawing authorizations to use the KSeF Information required to be […]

The Serbian Minister of Finance has announced that the Law on Electronic Invoicing will be amended to delay the go-live for mandatory B2G e-invoicing. Both private sector suppliers and public sector buyers are given an additional period until 1 May to prepare before being required to issue and receive B2G e-invoices. These proposed changes are […]

Previously due to replace the Esterometro in January 2022, the FatturaPA for cross-border flows has been postponed until July 2022. The Italian authorities have not published further details, therefore the status quo remains. In practice, this means that: – Esterometro must still be used for reporting outbound and inbound cross-border transactions until 30 June 2022; […]

The Chinese e-invoicing pilot program, which has gradually been expanded in its new form since January 2021, has now welcomed a new batch of cities into the program. The updated version of the Chinese CTC e-invoicing pilot program, which is intended to allow businesses to issue e-invoices as well as to receive and verify them […]

TRA published an announcement which provides updates on the UBL-TR Guide and E-Fatura package on 25 November 2021. According to the announcement; A new code (337) was added to the complete list of exemption codes in the UBL-TR guide. A code (650) was removed from the list of codes (page 13) in the UBL-TR guide. […]

According to a newly published decree (No: 619-2021), second group of companies registered at the Joint-Stock Department and Investment Department in Cairo are required to join the e-invoice system as of 15 February 2022. This decision was preceded by decree (No:443-2021) in September which obliged the first group of registered companies at the Joint-Stock Department […]

It is expected that EU finance ministers will adopt a proposed revision to the EU VAT Directive at the upcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting on 7 December 2021. The amendment would amend the list in Annex III of the VAT Directive of products and services eligible for a reduced VAT rate. The proposal, […]

The Argentinean tax administration (AFIP), along with the Customs Administration (DGA) and the Productive Development Ministry, has informed that effective November 1, 2021, the new “Exporta Simple 2.0” Platform is in full production mode. According to the news release from the AFIP, the main changes under this new version of the system are related to […]

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.