Regulatory Analysis
On 31 July 2023, the French authorities published an updated version of the ‘External specifications file for electronic invoicing’, version 2.3, currently available only in French. The version 2.3 introduces new chapters and removes use case explanations which are now published as a separate new document. It also updates annexes which are attached as Excel […]
On 17 July 2023, the cabinet of the Belgian federal government failed to reach an agreement on the broader tax reform announced by the Minister of Finance, Vincent Van Peteghem on 2 March 2023, which aimed to introduce among other tax measures, the general obligation for B2B e-invoicing and e-reporting to reduce the country’s VAT […]
On July 28, 2023, the Sejm voted against the Senate’s veto which blocked the draft legislation introducing the national e-invoicing system, KSeF, on the grounds of it being unconstitutional. Following its adoption by Sejm and pursuant to the draft legislation, the e-invoicing obligation will come into force, as planned, on July 1, 2024, with some […]
France is in the process of implementing a Continuous Transaction Controls (CTC) system which introduces mandatory e-invoicing for domestic B2B transactions and e-reporting obligations. On July 28, 2023, the Directorate General of Public Finances announced that the roll-out date of the mandate is postponed in order to give the necessary time for taxpayers to comply […]
The European Commission (EC) authorized Germany to introduce special measures regarding mandatory electronic invoicing with its decision dated July 25, 2023. Germany plans to implement mandatory e-invoicing for domestic B2B transactions. According to the decision of the EC, Germany received the derogation from the VAT Directive from January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2027, or […]
The European Commission (EC) authorized Romania to introduce special measures regarding mandatory electronic invoicing with its decision dated July 25, 2023. Romania plans to implement mandatory e-invoicing for B2B transactions. According to the decision of the EC, Romania received the derogation from January 1, 2024, to December 31, 2026, or until the national transposition of […]
The German Federal Ministry of Finance has made draft amendments to Value Added Tax Law (Umsatzsteuergesetz, “UStG”) in order to implement mandatory e-invoicing. In April 2023, The German Federal Ministry of Finance sent a discussion proposal for the introduction of mandatory B2B e-invoicing to significant German business associations, asking for input. In June 2023, the […]
Portugal has officially postponed the mandatory B2G electronic invoicing obligation for small, medium and microenterprises, once again. Although B2G e-invoicing became mandatory for SMEs on 1 January 2023, the Law Decree no. 54/2023 postpones the obligation granting taxpayers a new deadline for compliance. The postponement was announced during the Press conference of the Council of […]
The project teams within the Ministry of Finance working on the development of the Fiscalization 2.0 system in Croatia, have been in touch with the Italian and French e-invoicing experts to hear their experiences from the implementation of these two countries’ CTC systems. The Ministry could be inspired by one or a combination of the […]
The Slovakian administration once again postponed the implementation of the mandatory submission of e-invoices to the IS EFA platform for B2G (business to government) and G2G (government to government) transactions. The implementation of the B2G and G2G mandate for the government and public administration institutions as well as for their suppliers is expected to start […]
The European Commission (EC) published its council implementing decision proposal authorizing Germany to introduce mandatory e-invoicing derogating from the VAT Directive, 2006/112/EC. Germany requested authorization to derogate from Articles 218 and 232 of the VAT Directive to be able to impose mandatory electronic invoicing for domestic B2B transactions in Germany, on 10 November 2022. According […]
The European Commission (EC) published its council implementing decision proposal authorizing Romania to introduce a special measure derogating from the VAT Directive, 2006/112/EC. According to proposal of the EC, Romania will receive a derogation as of 1 January 2024 until 31 December 2026. On the other hand, Romania will need to make necessary adaptations in […]
The Ministry of Finance in Serbia has recently published and updated: The Rulebook on electronic invoicing: Rulebook on electronic invoicing (efaktura.gov.rs) Internal Technical Manual (16.06.23): Updated internal technical manual (16.06.2023.) (efaktura.gov.rs) Instructions for using XML files: Instructions for using XML files (05.06.2023.) (efaktura.gov.rs) Main changes introduced in the Rulebook: Replaces three regulations that were applying […]
On 23 March 2023, the tax authorities published the working version of the schema FA (2). The next steps following the publication of the schema are: The final schema FA(2) will be published on ePUAP in June 2023. The test environment adapted to the schema FA(2) and documentation will be available in July 2023. The […]
The Saudi Arabian Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA), published updated technical documents for the e-invoicing system on 19 May 2023, after the public consultation process which took place in April 2023. Implementation Resolution of the E-invoicing Regulation, Security Features Implementation Standards and Electronic Invoice XML Implementation Standard to aforementioned resolution, and E-invoice Data Dictionary are […]
In a recent Press Conference held by the Council of Ministers of the Portuguese government it was announced that a new law-decree for the execution of the state budget for 2023 was approved. One of the many changes announced is another extension of the mandatory B2G e-invoicing deadline for micro, small and medium-sized companies allowing […]
On the 9th of May, the government in Poland adopted a draft law introducing mandatory e-invoicing via KSeF, which is going to take effect from 1 July 2024. Now the draft law has to be approved by Parliament, and the next session is planned for the end of May. The adoption of this piece of […]
The applications for registering as a partner dematerialization platform (PDP), a registered and authorized service platform, are open as of 2 May 2023. Under the new French e-invoicing mandate, taxpayers will be able to use the public billing portal (PPF) or PDPs for issuing e-invoices and e-reporting. For further information on PDPs, you can visit […]