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On April 28, 2025, the Turkish Revenue Administration (GB) published an important update to the electronic invoice package (e-Fatura) and the UBL-TR code list guide.

The implementation of electronic invoicing in Bosnia and Herzegovina is still in its infancy, particularly in comparison to other European countries. Unlike in many other European countries, there is no legal obligation for businesses (B2B), consumers (B2C) or public administration (B2G) to use electronic invoicing. Despite the possibility of sending electronic invoices by post or fax, invoices are still processed in physical format.

The Accounting software for resident companies has been made available by the Belgian Federal Public Service for Finance (FPS) for implementation from the 1st of January 2026. This coincides with the introduction of mandatory electronic invoicing. Furthermore, these software applications will facilitate the exchange of invoices in PEPPOL format.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has already started a public discussion about promoting e-invoicing for government administrations and businesses. It will run for 12 weeks, from February 13 to May 7, 2025.

PEPPOL was created in 2008 as a pilot Project by the European Comission and is governed by a set of specifications and standars based on multilaterals agreements. Its acronyc stands for Pan-European Public Procurement Online (PEPPOL).

Mandatory electronic invoicing has become increasingly prevalent in Europe in recent years, with a number of countries embracing this method to modernise and simplify their invoicing processes. The transition to e-invoicing has been gradual but steady, with a range of European nations passing legislation and regulations to encourage the uptake of mandatory e-invoicing.

Since the publication of Directive 2014/55/EU, e-invoicing has spread to all countries on the European continent.

European countries lose 825bn euros from tax evasion every year. This represents a loss of 16.5% of their tax take, according to a report by the socialists and democrats group. This is a major problem for governments and for which action has already been taken at both global and local levels.

From 18^th 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.

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.