Regulatory Analysis

Posted March 10, 2023 by Stephanie Melhem
Sales Tax on Low Value Goods in Malaysia Effective 1 April 2023

Effective 1 April 2023, Malaysia will be extending Sales Tax to sales of imported goods with a sale value of RM500 or less. Malaysia defines low value goods as “goods or class of goods from outside Malaysia that are sold in the online marketplace at a price of not exceeding RM500 and brought into Malaysia […]

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Posted March 10, 2023 by Alec Webb
The District of Columbia has released the 2023 EFT Payment Guide

The District of Columbia has released its 2023 Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) Payment Guide. There have been no changes from the 2022 publication. To view the D.C. 2023 EFT Payment Guide, please click here.

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Posted March 8, 2023 by Inês Carvalho
Belgium: Parliament proposes changes in Periodic VAT Declarations and Payments

On February 7th, 2023, the Belgium Parliament published a bill aimed at improving the processing of periodic VAT returns and payments. Among the proposed measures, the bill provides for use of a substitute VAT return by the tax authorities when the taxpayer has failed to submit their VAT return within 3 months of the legal […]

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Posted March 8, 2023 by Victor Duarte
Spain: Public Consultation Related to B2B Mandatory e-Invoicing Launched

The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation (Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital) has launched a public consultation on the upcoming B2B e-Invoicing mandate to improve the participation of citizens in the procedure of elaboration of norms, prior to its development. This public consultation is carried out through the web portal of the […]

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Posted March 7, 2023 by Dilara İnal
Kenya: Rolling out of the software for e-invoicing

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) announced the second phase of the Tax Invoice Management System (e-TIMS). KRA aims to enhance the experience of taxpayers in managing their tax invoices. Under this phase, KRA will provide a software version of the system in order to allow additional ways of transmitting electronic invoices to KRA on a […]

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Posted March 7, 2023 by Marta Sowińska
Belgium: first phase of the Broader Tax Reform has been launched

March 2, 2023, The Minister of Finance, Vincent Van Peteghem, launched the proposal for the first phase of the broader tax reform in Belgium. The proposal, among different tax measures, introduces the general obligation for B2B e-invoicing and reporting, which aims to reduce the country’s VAT gap. As previously communicated by the Belgian administration, the […]

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Posted March 7, 2023 by Carolina Silva
South Korea: Introduction of Self-Billing Invoices

South Korea’s latest Tax Reform proposal has recently been approved, and introduces several new measures for the year 2023, among which is the possibility of issuance of self-billing VAT invoices. The tax reform amended article 71-2 of current South Korean VAT law in order to allow the issuance of invoices for the supply of goods […]

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Posted March 7, 2023 by Erik Wallin
Texas: Reduced Sales Tax Rate Proposal

Texas Senate Bill 1000 would cut the 6.25% sales tax down to 5.75% starting October 1. Under the proposal, the new rate would amount to a reduction of a half cent. This bill seems to have bipartisan support and the backing of the governor. Updates will be posted here on the Regulatory Feed as they […]

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Posted March 7, 2023 by Bradley Feimer
South Dakota Revises Remote Sellers Threshold

Effective July 1st, 2023, South Dakota Senate Bill 30 revises the remote seller thresholds for those who must collect and remit sales and use tax for the current or previous calendar year by removing the 200-transaction threshold. The law was signed by the governor on February 9th, 2023. More information concerning the legislation may be […]

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Posted March 3, 2023 by Carolina Silva
Hungary: Real-Time Invoice Reporting 3.0 Updates Technical Documentation

The Hungarian Tax Authority published in the test environment of the platform an update of the API documentation: Online Invoicing System 3.0 Interface Specification adding new ERROR message to be introduced in the Online Invoicing System. This blocking validation error refers to INVALID_LINE_OPERATION (Error 60) triggered where “MODIFY” is specified in the value of the […]

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Posted March 2, 2023 by Joanna Hysi
Greece myDATA: Postponement of data transmission deadlines

The Deputy Minster of Finance jointly with the governor of IAPR have in a recent press release announced a Decision amending the myDATA law (L. 1138/2020), whereby the deadlines for transmitting certain data generated in 2021, 2022 and 2023 are postponed, thus giving business more time to collect the data and transmit them according to […]

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Posted March 2, 2023 by Dilara İnal
India: New Invoice Reporting Portals

The Indian Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) has announced that new Invoice Reporting Portals (IRP) have been onboarded. IRPs act as a bridge between the taxpayer (or their Accredited Service) Providers and the tax authority backend platform called the GST Portal for the purposes of e-invoice issuance. Until the new 4 were IRPs announced, […]

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Posted March 1, 2023 by Enis Gencer
Israel: CTC Model Approved by the Government

Exciting news out of Israel as the government approved the 2023-2024 budget on 24 February 2023 to introduce a Continuous Transaction Control (CTC) model in their tax system. This is a long-awaited move that will have significant implications for businesses operating within the country. The new plan, which was prepared by the Ministry of Finance […]

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Posted March 1, 2023 by Kelly Muniz
Brazil: Postponement of the EFD-Reinf Obligation for Next Group of Taxpayers

The obligation to submit the EFD-Reinf (Digital Fiscal Record of Withholdings and Other Fiscal Information) for the next group of obliged taxpayers, which was set to begin March 2023, has been postponed. Normative Instruction n. 2.133, of 27 February 2023 has now been officially published postponing such obligation, meaning that affected taxpayers must submit their […]

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Posted February 27, 2023 by Maria del Carmen
New VAT collection Regime on the sale of food and other products for human consumption.

The AFIP published the Resolution No. 5329/2023 on February 13, 2023, which among other topics set a new VAT collection regime on the sale of food products for human consumption, beverages, personal hygiene and cleaning articles. The amount of the charge will be determined by applying, on the net price of the operation resulting from […]

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Posted February 27, 2023 by Andrés Landerretche
Ecuador: Update of technical sheet of electronic vouchers Off-line scheme version 2.24

The Internal Revenue Service of Ecuador published an update of the electronic receipts technical sheet for its Off-line version. In this version the rates of certain ICE taxes are updated. Version 2.24 is available at the following link: here  

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Posted February 27, 2023 by Andrés Landerretche
Peru: Change in the deadline for sending the electronic invoice.

Through Resolution No. 000003-2023, the National Superintendence of Customs and Tax Administration established a new maximum delivery period of three calendar days from the day after the date of issuance, to send the invoice or the linked electronic note to SUNAT or to the Electronic Services Operator (OSE), as appropriate. The extension of the term […]

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Posted February 27, 2023 by Andrés Landerretche
Bolivia: Postponement of calendar of new group of taxpayers to implement mandatory invoicing.

With the publication of Resolution No. 102300000004, the Bolivian tax authority postponed the term indicated in Resolution No. 102200000025 of November 29, 2022, until March 31, 2023, term in which the third group of taxpayers classified by Resolution No. 102200000010 of May 18, 2022, must start issuing Fiscal Documents only through the assigned online invoicing […]

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