> Hello, > > Is it accurate to say that electronic invoicing is mandatory under > certain conditions? If yes, what are those conditions? Which > governing body created such a requirement, and for what purpose?
Here, in Poland, they are "being made" mandatory for polish businesses selling to other polish businesses. With the goal of eliminating tax fraud, of course. First, "e-faktury" were supposed to be required by 2023. Then the requirement was postponed to 2024. And current plans are to require it from 2026. I did not fully believe in this happening the last time and I cannot say I do now… Btw, here, the state needs some kind of permission from the European Commission to implement such a thing. They have one but I heard it shall expire if they don't complete it before certain deadline. Also, IIUC, Poland can serve as some kind of sandbox, with other EU countries implementing a similar thing once it works out here. What I find to be the bigger problem is lack of free software for interacting with government's servers. XML? I can dump it to my terminal. Also, writing some code to make a human-readable document from it is trivial. But for uploading XMLs a businessman has to choose between using a nonfree webapp from the government and having the accounting done by a specialized company. In the latter case, one uses the accounting company's nonfree software and the company can use some API to send the electronic documents to the Ministry of Finance. And, well, there are other kinds of documents that already have to be uploaded to said ministry's servers in XML format [1]. In case of these, I found the API used by accounting companies not to be available to the businessmen themselves. At least not officially (because scraping the government's webapp doesn't seem that hard). Also, the XML schemas designed for such things tend to be crap. Just look at the tag names required here [1]. K_12, K_13, K_14? The XSDs for validation are fortunately available but unfortunately without a free license attached. Not sure to what extent one would be allowed to use it in development of a free program (or a nonfree one — doesn't matter). Best! Wojtek [1] https://www.gov.pl/attachment/aa25bab7-1932-49b1-8b49-d84ffc90c665 -- W. Kosior website: https://koszko.org/koszko.html fediverse: https://friendica.me/profile/koszko/profile PGP fingerprint: E972 7060 E3C5 637C 8A4F 4B42 4BC5 221C 5A79 FD1A On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 08:42:49 -0400 (EDT) Alex via Discussion <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Is it accurate to say that electronic invoicing is mandatory under certain > conditions? If yes, what are those conditions? Which governing body created > such a requirement, and for what purpose? > _______________________________________________ > Discussion mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > This mailing list is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct. All > participants are kindly asked to be excellent to each other: > https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct
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