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E-invoicing in the United Kingdom began to take shape in 2010 with the establishment of the National e-Invoicing Forum. This forum aimed to promote electronic invoicing in both the public and private sectors of the country.
Since the publication of Directive 2014/55/EU, e-invoicing has spread to all countries on the European continent.
The Romanian Ministry of Finance announces new plans to extend mandatory B2B e-invoicing, which will start in July 2024, to B2C transactions.
It is expected that in July 2024, at the same time as mandatory B2B e-invoicing starts in Romania, the voluntary period for B2C transactions will start, which is expected to become mandatory in January 2025.
As part of the digital reporting requirements and the ViDA project, Romania will have to harmonise its centralised settlement model with the reforms proposed by the EU by 2035.
From 1 January 2022, Poland has initiated the voluntary phase of implementingelectronic invoicingthrough the National Electronic Invoicing System (KSeF). This marks the start of the widespread adoption of e-invoicing in the country.
In Europe, electronic invoicing is present in all countries and much of the success of its use is due to the regulatory impulse by the different governments to accelerate its implementation through compulsion. Such is the success of the B2G e-invoicing that the use of it is being extended to the B2B field. In this post, we will see which European countries are already adopting this new modality of invoicing between companies.
From 18th April, 2019, the public administrations of all EU Member States are compelled to electronically receive and process their invoices. This concerns any B2G (Business-to-Government) and G2G (Government-to-Government) trades and transactions within the European Union.
The 2014/55/EU regulation is aimed at standardise a common European e-invoicing format, so that any public or private supplier is able to work with European public administrations seamlessly. Developing cross-border trade falls under the main EU goals.
Estonia, like many other European countries, has decided to implement mandatory eInvoicing for the country’s public procurement. This decision is included in the modification of the Accounting Act that was published on 27 December 2016, which established that all contracting authorities (central, regional and local) must accept and process machine-processable invoices as of 1 March 2017.
Mandatory electronic invoicing with Czech institutions was established in the country on 1 October 2016, the year in which European countries such as Switzerland and Croatia also made it mandatory.
E-invoicing in Sweden has been a reality since 2008, when the Swedish National Finance Management Authority (ESV) made e-invoicing mandatory for central government agencies.
When we talk about the format for electronic invoicing, this refers to the structure of the file which supports the invoice itself and its legal content. In the case of Spain, the Tax Agency has established XML, which is used in the Facturae structure, previously known as AEAT-CCI, as the official format.
