Electronic invoicing

A discussion and guidance on the path to full scale adoption of electronic invoicing by corporates, goverments, SME's and consumers, creating savings up to € 60 billion in 2020. With a focus on: trends, business models, processes, technology, and legal issues.

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Penalties: appropriate way to increase e-invoicing adoption?

In the advent of the EXPP Summit, Bruno Koch from Billentis stated that more organisation plan penalties for paper invoices, or already charge extra for paper invoices. He asked whether this was an appropriate and promising way to increase adoption and higher ROI? Of course we can imagine that organisation are planning or already using this approa...

26 August 2011

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German e-invoicing liberalisation vetoed

On July 8th 2011 the Bundesrat, the German upper house of parliament, denied approval of the changes adopted of the federal tax regulations already approved by the Bundestag (the lower house of Parliament) and the federal government. This decision directly impacts the modified legislation E-Invoicing. What’s the fuzz all about? The original plan w...

26 August 2011

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Obama wants Full Scale eInvoicing Processing in 2013

As part of President Obama’s “Campaign to Cut Waste” across the entire federal government all Treasury Bureaus must implement an e-invoice processing solution (IPP) by the end of 2012. In 2013 commercial vendors must submit their invoices using the IPP. Benefits It is expected that this initiative improves government efficiency and cut costs for t...

26 August 2011

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Greece to start with full scale e-invoicing from early 2012

As part of a major overhauling to decrease their global the Greek government aims to save more than 3 billion Euro annually with e-invoicing. They also focus on reducing tax fraud and increasing tax earnings. In the meantime enterprises will allegedly benefit save than 1 billion Euro per year from the adoption of electronic invoicing, according to...

25 August 2011

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A look at the current Spanish fiscal eInvoicing requirements

Even though Spanish legislation is prone to change as from 1 January 2011 in the advent of the new EU E-invoicing directive, there is still room to take a look at the current legal situation. This article was inspired by an article from Julia Sanchez Meynial , Marketing Director at Pixelware. has created diverse Business Solutions for the electroni...

24 August 2011

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Mexican electronic invoicing adoption statistics

The Mexican Tax Administration (SAT) reported that in June alone 270,000 taxpayers and 214 SME’s opted for electronic invoicing. The SAT also stressed that the taxpayers have issued a staggering amount of more than 628 million electronic invoices, which at year-end estimates should reach over one billion. The SAT furthermore reported a news confer...

23 August 2011

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Public review: CEN E-invoicing Workshop Agreements CWAs

The CEN E-invoicing III Workshop released its 3 draft CWAs. They are open for a 60 days period of public review until 9 October 2011. It is beautiful to see how these CWA's interlock with each other, the recent EC Communication, Decision and Directive and with the current European Interoperability Framework. For legal professionals only: Model Int...

19 August 2011

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Does Equal Treatment create ADDITIONAL e-invoicing adoption

This week Bruno Koch (Billentis) informed me that he is currently consulting a public sector organisation which has to implement equal treatment (ET) between paper and electronic invoices by the end of 2012. This country wants to know if (ET) should also be actively pushed or not. So they asked some interesting questions, that I’d like to have y...

20 July 2011

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Why consider CII or SEPA with the advent of UBL 2.1?

Tim McGrath, vice chair of OASIS UBL , explains in his recent post on UBL XML.org, that UBL is the clearest path towards a single common standard format for XML business documents. Underneath is an impressum of his post (all credit go to Tim McGrath): “The situation in Europe with regards to electronic invoicing is a useful example of the present c...

01 July 2011