Regulatory Analysis

Posted December 2, 2022 by Marta Sowińska
Serbia: Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Fiscalization

The Serbian Minister of Finance (MoF) published the draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Fiscalization. The Law of Fiscalization regulates the so called “Fiscalization”, which is the procedure of fiscalization of the content of the fiscal account through an electronic fiscal device. The amendments to the Law on Fiscalization impacting the future e-invoicing […]

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Posted December 2, 2022 by Marta Sowińska
Poland: draft legislation published amending the VAT Act and adopting mandatory e-invoicing via KSeF

On the 1st of December the Ministry of Finance published draft legislation amending the Act of 11 March 2004 on tax on goods and services (Journal of Laws of 2022, item 931, as amended) – hereinafter referred to as the “VAT Act” regarding the introduction of mandatory invoicing in the National e-Invoice System (KSeF) hereinafter […]

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Posted December 2, 2022 by Andrés Landerretche
Mexico: CFDI version 3.3 can be used until 31 March 2023

The SAT published the Second Anticipated Version of the Tenth Resolution of Modifications to the Miscellaneous Tax Resolution for 2022 which establishes the possibility of issuing CFDI in its version 3.3 and the CFDI that covers withholdings and payment information in its version 1.0, until March 31, 2023. The foregoing is also applicable to the […]

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Posted November 23, 2022 by Enis Gencer
Lithuania: E-Invoicing Portal based on EU standard and PEPPOL

The Lithuanian Ministry of Economy and Innovation announced its plans to build a technological solution that will support the transmission of electronic invoices by the European standard for electronic invoices. According to the project plan announced by the Ministry, the platform is expected to be available free of charge to businesses for at least five years and be ready […]

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Posted November 21, 2022 by Dilara İnal
Germany takes a step forward to implement mandatory e-invoicing

German government has previously announced its ambition to introduce a uniform nationwide electronic reporting system that will be used for the issuance and validating of invoices as well as forwarding them to buyers. German ministry of finance announced during the IDSt-Conference Digital Transformation in VAT held on 16th of November 2022 that Germany has applied for […]

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Posted November 17, 2022 by Marta Sowińska
Serbia: Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Electronic Invoicing

On November 9, the Serbian Ministry of Finance published a Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Electronic Invoicing. The main changes concern: Scope: Natural persons who are not liable for income tax from self-employment in the sense of the law governing personal income tax will be excluded from the provisions of this law. […]

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Posted November 8, 2022 by Marta Sowińska
New Zealand: introduces changes to GST invoicing requirements

New Zealand is implementing changes to its GST invoicing and record keeping requirements, which are set to enter into force from April 1, 2023.  These changes include: The use of tax invoices will be replaced by a more general requirement to provide and keep certain records known as taxable supply information. Terminology:              […]

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Posted October 27, 2022 by Enis Gencer
Greece introduces mandatory B2G e-invoicing

On 23 September 2022, Law 4972/2022 was published in the Official Gazette of Greece, amending the provisions of Law 4601/2019 that establish the framework concerning electronic invoicing in public contracts. According to amendments, economic operators must submit electronic invoices following the European standard for issuing electronic invoices for the execution of public contracts, which entails a […]

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Posted October 26, 2022 by Andrés Landerretche
Peru: Issuance of e-Invoices to Foreign Tourists

The National Superintendence of Customs and Tax Administration of Peru (SUNAT) published a draft resolution to allow the issuance of electronic invoices for foreign tourists. The draft resolution modifies the Payment Voucher Regulations, as well as the regulations on the electronic issuance of payment vouchers to allow the issuance of invoices for sales made by […]

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Posted October 26, 2022 by Andrés Landerretche
Ecuador: Electronic invoicing for commercial land transport

The National Directorate of the Internal Revenue Service of Ecuador published resolution DGERCGC22-00000052 by virtue of which the electronic invoicing of land transport operators throughout the country, except taxis, will be made possible. With this regulation change, the partners, or shareholders of commercial transport operators, except taxis, may be designated as exclusive points of issuance […]

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Posted October 19, 2022 by Selin Adler Ring
France: Further details on the upcoming E-invoicing and E-reporting system are published

The French authorities published new legal documentation that provides details on the overall French Mandate requirements. Some of them, especially with regard to the obligations of the Partner Dematerialization Platform (PDP) operators and e-reporting deadlines, were long-awaited.  Decree No. 2022-1299 provides requirements and obligations of the Partner Dematerialization Platform (PDP) operators and the Invoicing Public Portal (PPF), the […]

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Posted October 14, 2022 by Kelly Muniz
Italy: Compilation Guide for E-Invoicing has been Updated

The Italian Revenue Agency has now released version 1.8 of the Compilation Guide of the Electronic Invoice and Esterometer (Guida alla compilazione FE ed esterometro). The updates reflect the latest changes in the FatturaPA technical documentation, valid from 1 October 2022, of which the main point is the inclusion of the new Type of Document […]

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Posted October 5, 2022 by Kelly Muniz
El Salvador: Implementation of Mandatory E-invoicing System

The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador has recently approved Decree 487 with relevant reforms to the Tax Code, introducing the initial and general legal framework for its mandatory electronic invoicing system, for which there is currently no provision under the country’s tax legislation. The Decree defines the different types of Electronic Fiscal Documents (Documentos Tributários […]

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Posted October 5, 2022 by Enis Gencer
Romania changes the fiscal inspection rules after the introduction of digitization projects

On 30 September 2022, the Romanian Ministry of Finance published a draft Government Emergency Ordinance, including various amendments to various regulations. One of the important changes envisaged in the draft GEO is regarding the rules on fiscal inspections. While the fiscal inspections are carried out on the work premises of the taxpayers’ premises, as per Article 125 […]

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Posted October 5, 2022 by Kelly Muniz
Brazil: Implementation of the NFS-e Abrasf Standard in the Federal District

The Secretary of Economy of the Federal District has announced that, as of 1 November 2022, the Federal District will begin implementation of its Service Tax Management System (Sistema de Gerenciamento do Imposto Sobre Serviços – ISS), for which the Electronic Invoice for Services (Nota Fiscal de Serviços Eletrônica – NFS-e) will be issued in […]

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Posted October 5, 2022 by Kelly Muniz
Argentina: New Obligation to link the E-Transport Document for Flour to Sales E-Invoice

The Argentinian tax authority (AFIP) has established the procedure for linking the electronic transport document for flour (Remito Electrónico Harinero – REH) with the electronic sales invoice that supports the operations of sale of flour and by-products derived from the milling of wheat. As recently established for the e-transport document for meats (Remito Electrónico Cárnico […]

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Posted October 4, 2022 by Kelly Muniz
Colombia: E-invoice System Maintenance

The Colombian tax authority (DIAN) has informed that on 4 October 2022, from 8pm until 23:59pm, maintenance will be performed within the Electronic Invoicing System, during which period the service will be unavailable.

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Posted October 4, 2022 by Kelly Muniz
Uruguay: Testing of the New Formats of the Electronic Fiscal Documents and Daily Report is now Available

The Uruguayan tax authority (DGI) has informed that Version 23.2 of the CFE Format document (electronic fiscal documents), version 13 of the Report Format document, version 15 of the Response Message Format and XSD schema version 1.42.1 are now available for testing. The new versions and their XSD schemas are published in the Functional and […]

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