Regulatory Analysis
The Romanian Ministry of Finance has announced another delay to e-transport requirements for high-fiscal risk products by issuing a draft emergency ordinance (“GEO”) on 21 September 2022. The fines had already been delayed from July 2022 to October 2022, but this time the entry into force has been postponed to January 2023. Another significant change […]
On 1 August 2022, the Romanian National Agency of Fiscal Administration (ANAF) issued a draft order indicating plans to extend the SAF-T filing grace period. The ANAF previously granted a six month grace period to 31 July 2022 for SAF-T filings. The grace period is set to be extended by an additional six months to […]
In a recent move, the Portuguese parliament has once again postponed the implementation of mandatory B2G e-invoicing for small, medium and microenterprises. The mandate has been postponed before and was previously set to become effective on 1 July 2022. With the change published in Law Decree 42-A/2022, of 30 June 2022, the postponement now means that […]
Following the public consultation period, the Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA) in Saudi Arabia has published the amended E-invoicing Implementation Resolution. As previously mentioned, these amendments aim to clarify some requirements (e.g. Cryptographic Stamp, hash, counter etc.) rather than introducing new ones. Moreover, together with the user manual a new Fatoora Platform made available […]
On 30 June 2022, the Romanian Government issued Act No. 106 and changed the effective date of Articles 13 and 14 of GEO, which established the penalties for non-compliance with the e-transport system requirements. As a result, the Romanian authorities will not implement fines for non-compliance with the e-transport requirements until the new effective date, […]
The transposition of the Directive 2014/55/EU into Greek law was adopted in the first quarter of 2019, making it mandatory for the central government to receive e-invoices from its private sector suppliers. Moreover, the Independent Authority for Public Revenue recently published a clarification concerning suppliers in B2G transactions. According to the clarification, suppliers that have […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
The National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) published a draft order introducing further details about the RO e-Transport system. According to Article 1 para. 3 of the draft order, categories of road vehicles that are monitored in the RO e-Transport system are those that; a. Have a maximum authorized mass (MAM) of at least 3.5 tons, […]
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 […]
The Romanian Chamber of Deputies published a 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 (Draft Law) on 20 April 2022. The Draft Law includes important amendments to GEO no. 120/2021. The changes proposed in the Draft Law are as […]
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 […]
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 […]
On the 30th of March 2022 EU Commission has published a derogatory decision, exempting Poland from Article 218 and Article 232 of Directive 2006/112/EC, which were hindering Poland from developing mandatory e-invoicing. The decision will apply from 1 April 2023 until 31 March 2026, after receiving the last approval from the EU Council. The mandatory […]
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. […]