Regulatory Analysis

Posted June 27, 2022 by Marta Sowińska
The EU Council agrees to a mandatory e-invoicing in Poland from January 2024

On 27 June 2022, the decision of the Council of the European Union from 17 June 2022 which has granted Poland with the special measure derogating from Articles 218 and 232 of Directive 2006/112/EC for the period of 1 January 2024 until 31 December 2026 was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. […]

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Posted June 17, 2022 by Enis Gencer
Greece: Periodic invoice reporting deadline extended to 30 June 2022

The Independent Authority for Public Revenue issued a decision on 15 June 2022 and extended the deadline until 30 June 2022 to transmit consolidated statements of customers and suppliers to the myDATA platform according to Law 4174/2013.

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Posted June 15, 2022 by Enis Gencer
Denmark: New accounting law introduces e-booking requirements

On 19 May 2022, the Danish Parliament passed a new accounting law that requires taxpayers to make their bookings electronically using a digital accounting system. This requirement will apply to all companies that are obliged to submit an annual report to the Danish Tax Authority and others that are not obliged to submit annual reports […]

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Posted June 15, 2022 by Selin Adler Ring
Saudi Arabia: ZATCA to Subsidize E-invoicing Solutions

In an effort to ease compliance burden on taxpayers, the Zakat (the Saudi Arabian Customs and Tax Authority, ZATCA), has announced that it will offer to subsidize e-invoicing solutions acquired by taxpayers. For this purpose, ZATCA established a new electronic service through which taxpayers may request a subsidy after providing certain details and the invoice […]

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Posted June 13, 2022 by Enis Gencer
EU Council authorizes Poland to introduce mandatory e-invoicing as of January 2024

On 10 June 2022, the Council of the European Union published the Council Implementing Decision authorizing the Republic of Poland to apply a special measure derogating from Articles 218 and 232 of Directive 2006/112/EC. While it was expected that the mandatory e-invoicing would start as of 1 April 2023, the recently published decision stated that Poland requested […]

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Posted June 13, 2022 by Enis Gencer
Romania: E-Transport technical documentation has been published

The National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) published the technical documentation for the e-transport system. The technical documentation includes APIs, sample XML files, schema and validation rules. The documentation is available here.

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Posted June 2, 2022 by Victor Duarte
Hungary: Real-time reporting 3.0 – API Documentation Update Published in Test Environment

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, WARN, and INFO messages. Currently, this document is available only in Hungarian in the test environment; however, this document and its English version should be published soon in […]

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Posted May 26, 2022 by Filippa Jörnstedt
Portugal Postpones a Stricter Authenticity and Integrity Requirement to 1 Jan 2023

Portuguese authorities have announced another delay to its expected new e-invoicing requirements, by issuing a Ministerial Order that prolongs the validity of PDF invoices for all tax purposes. This is not the first time the entry into force has been delayed, but this time the entry into force has been postponed from 1 July 2022 […]

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Posted May 20, 2022 by Enis Gencer
Romania: Mandatory B2G e-invoicing as of July 2022

The Draft Law on the approval of the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 120/2021 on the administration, operation, and implementation of the national e-invoicing system was enacted and published in the official gazette on 17 May 2022. According to the law; B2G e-invoicing will become mandatory as of 1 July 2022. Since November 2021, the RO E-Factura system […]

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Posted May 17, 2022 by Marta Sowińska
Belgium: on its way to implement B2B e-invoicing

On 11 May 2022 Belgium Chamber of Representatives published a draft law amending the law of 2 August 2002 on combating late payment in commercial transactions, as last amended by the law of 28 May 2019, in order to implement electronic invoicing between companies (B2B). Based on the law proposal, companies (with the exception of […]

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Posted May 11, 2022 by Marta Sowińska
Slovakia CTC implementation phase postponed

On the 5th of May 2022, the Slovakian Ministry of Finance presented a technical solution for the new IS EFA system, an e-invoicing platform for sending invoice data to the financial administration. Moreover, the Ministry of Finance has also communicated a new timeline for the implementation of e-invoicing framework: June 2022- the voluntary public testing […]

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Posted April 22, 2022 by Enis Gencer
Greece: Abolition of periodic invoice reporting requirement

The Independent Authority for Public Revenue (IAPR) issued a decision on 28 March 2022 and abolished the requirement to file consolidated statements of customers and suppliers according to Law 4174/2013. Taxpayers must submit the consolidated statements until 27 May 2022 for the calendar year 2021. Considering that the tax authority receives the invoice data through the MyDATA […]

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Posted April 12, 2022 by Enis Gencer
Romania: Draft Law establishing the details of the e-transport system published in the official gazette

Romania introduced an e-Transport system, which will be used to monitor the transport of goods on the national territory. After minor revisions, the draft Emergency Ordinance was published in the Official Gazette on 11 April 2022 (GEO no. 41). The revisions made in the ordinance are: Addition of a provision regarding personal data protection The […]

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Posted April 8, 2022 by Enis Gencer
Romania: High-risk products are defined as part of the new e-transport framework

The National Agency For Fiscal Administration (ANAF) has issued a draft order on April 8, 2022 to clarify products that are considered high fiscal risk products as part of the new e-transport framework. The order establishes five high-risk product categories as follows: Vegetables, plants, roots and tubers, foodstuffs falling within CN codes 0701 to 0714 inclusive […]

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Posted March 22, 2022 by Enis Gencer
The details about the Romanian e-Transport System come to light

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. […]

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Posted January 10, 2022 by Enis Gencer
Romania: High-risk products are defined as part of the new e-invoicing framework

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 […]

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Posted December 28, 2021 by Enis Gencer
Romania: Go-live for partial B2B e-invoicing mandate and e-transport system

The Government Emergency Ordinance (GEO) no. 130/2021 was published in Romania’s Official Gazette on 18 December. The legislative act includes significant changes with respect to the fiscal-budgetary measures, including the roll-out date for B2B e-invoicing and the introduction of the e-transport system. According to the GEO 130/2021, in B2B transactions involving products with high fiscal […]

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Posted December 16, 2021 by Coskun Antal
Egypt: New phase for e-invoicing published

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 […]

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