EU Finance Ministers debate ViDA at ECOFIN 16 June 2024 The EU’s 3-pillar reforms of the VAT regime, VAT in the Digital Age, is to be reviewed by Finance Minister at the monthly Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) on 16 June 2023. They will
National Bureau for Revenue publishes B2B e-invoicing tender The Bahraini tax authority, The National Bureau for Revenue (NBR), has issued a tender invite for private companies to assist it with the design of a nation-wide B2B electronic invoicing system. This includes the design of IT
Backing for EU’s VAT in the Digital Age reforms; sceptical on need for mandatory domestic e-invoicing regime The Dutch Secretary of Finance has confirmed conditional support of the EU’s VAT in the Digital Age – reforms designed to reduce the need for foreign VAT registrations
France’s July 2024 B2B e-invoicing launch sees a special role for independent e-invoicing agents – PDP’s Mandatory B2B domestic e-invoicing in France will start in July 2024. A pilot will start at the beginning of the year. Note: from 1 July 2024, all French taxpayers must
Tax authorities confirm scope of DEF electronic invoicing obligations The West African islands of Cape Verde introduced electronic invoicing (Documents Fiscaux électroniques or ‘DFE’) from 2020 for the digital reporting of goods and services supplies. It was phased in, completing December 2022. Taxpayers may use
The EU is undertaking an extended program of reforms to its Value Added Tax regime. This commenced with the 2016 Tax Action Plan, containing over ten reforms included the later separated 1 July 2021 e-commerce VAT package and the new VAT in the Digital Age
European Commission calls for feedback on adoption and areas for improvement of standard electronic invoice format as VAT in the Digital Age reforms approach The European Commission is holding a consultation of the eInvoicing Directive 2014/55/EU which provides for a common European standard on eInvoicing
Long standing data availability & accuracy challenges take on new imperative with the proliferation of VAT digitalisation and live transaction reporting The whirlwind of global e-invoicing and digital reporting mandates is upon us as governments demand live access to transactional data to validate and surface
E-invoicing and live digital reporting mandates mean VAT and GST must be calculated accurately in real-time to avoid blocked invoices, audits and potential losses. How to rise to the challenge The ‘luxury’ of a few weeks to retro-calculate transactional VAT or GST is coming to
