Taiwan implemented Value Added Tax obligations on non-resident providers and marketplaces for electronic or digital services from 1 May 2017. There is a NTD 480,000 VAT registration threshold for simplified registration, and no requirement to appoint a local Fiscal Representative. Taiwan imposes Government Uniform Invoices
Global marketplaces and car sharing brought into VAT / GST review The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has extended the sector coverage for its model framework for tax authorities’ requests for data from gig and sharing economies. The new sectors added cover digital platforms
Sweden mandatory PEPPOL e-invoicing? The Swedish tax authority, Skatteverket, and Ministry of Finance will be reviewing introducing Digital Reporting Requirements (DRR) for VAT invoice reporting to help tackle VAT fraud and close the VAT gap. This would likely be in coordination with the EU VAT in
The West Indies Island state of the Bahamas imposed VAT obligations on non-resident providers and digital marketplaces for digital and electronic services to consumers from 1 December 2019. There is no special VAT registration process, and no requirement to appoint a local VAT Fiscal Representative.
Algeria imposed its Value Added Tax on foreign providers to consumers of digital or electronic services from 1 January 2020. This is subject to the reduced VAT rate of 9% until 2022. The current VAT rate in Algeria is 19% for standard supplies. There is
Oman implemented its 5% Value Added Tax regime on 16 April 2021, including making electronic or digital services providers and electronic marketplaces liable to tax on B2C supplies. There is no VAT registration threshold from non-resident traders Oman is the fourth of the six Gulf
Spain to switch from SII invoice listing reporting to live e-invoices? The Spanish Council of Ministers has backed a report calling for the adoption of electronic invoices by all Spanish B2B VAT payers. Spain’s SII live invoice reporting regime was introduced in July 2017. The
2021/22 budget includes VAT on foreign digital services The Israeli Ministry of Finance has announced that it will revisit again taxing e-commerce goods and digital services being provided to its consumers by non-resident sellers or providers. Israel is on of the very few developed economies
Peru’s tax authority, SUNAT (Superintendencia Nacional de Aduanas y de Administración Tributaria), introduced Electronic Payment Receipt, CPE, e-invoicing in 2010, and mandated it for all taxpayer above 75 UIT annual turnover in 2017. New requirements were introduced on 1 April 2021 for small taxpayers, but
Portugal’s Autoridade Tributária e Aduaneira (AT) is to make compulsory the production of a Portuguese Standard Audit File for Tax (SAF-T) Accounting file added to the existing Invoice SAF-T PT requirements. This will come into effect from 1 January 2022 for resident businesses. The Accounting file is
