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Bo Harald - ZEF Solutions - Esbo | 30/11/2008 | 2995 views

Mr Somebody Else will not do it We know that the best possible thing we can do right now in the area of digitalization and productivity is to get rid of paper based invoicing - move to structured formats (not e-mail). Savings are massive - to say the least, the environment needs it (2,8m tons of CO2 to be eliminated), learning needs it, the real t...

Bo Harald - ZEF Solutions - Esbo | 30/11/2008 | 1872 views

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Bo Harald - ZEF Solutions - Esbo | 28/11/2008 | 2199 views

Banks taking responsibility - SWIFT committed

It has been said many times that only if banks come together and join force also with traditional service providers will we get a real take-up of e-invoicing. SWIFT has now published a report saying in essence that 28 out of 29 banks replying to questionnaire have already launched e-invoicing or plan to do so. Networking model naturally needed - t...

Bo Harald - ZEF Solutions - Esbo | 24/11/2008 | 1507 views

Transport mode IS irrelevant..

We now know that most EU-countries support Equal Treatment - of paper and e-invoices - from a VAT-auditing angle. This is great progress. Some may still need clarification - what does ET mean? In all essence it means that: Transport IS irrelevant. From this follows that auditing can treat all invoicing in the same way. Of course it makes common ...

Bo Harald - ZEF Solutions - Esbo | 21/11/2008 | 1526 views

EQUAL TREATMENT

Tax authorities took a cautious view towards e-invoicing in the first round. In some countries even cumbersome extra demands were put on this new practise and crossborder invoicing was made difficult and costly as regulation started to increasingly differ. Then there was a question. Why should not sending and receiving paper and e-invoicing be tre...