Electronic invoicing, mandatory from Jan. 1, 2024 for all business-to-business transactions

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The Ministry of Finance of Romania published today, July 28, 2023, on its website a press release on Electronic Invoicing, which will be mandatory from January 1, 2024 for all business-to-business transactions. On July 27, 2023, Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1553 of July 25, 2023 authorizing Romania to introduce a special measure derogating from Articles 218 and 232 of Directive 2006/112/EC on the common system of value added tax was published in the Official Journal of the European Union No. L 188.

The decision allows Romania to establish, as of January 1, 2024, mandatory electronic invoicing for all transactions between taxable persons established in the territory of Romania. The measure is applicable until December 31, 2026.

If Romania deems it necessary to extend the special measure, it may submit a request for extension to the Commission, together with an evaluation report on the effectiveness of the national measures from the point of view of combating VAT fraud and tax evasion, as well as simplifying VAT collection.

In the coming period, the categories of economic operators who are obliged to issue electronic invoices in the business-to-business (B2B) relationship and transmit them through the national electronic invoicing system RO e-Invoice, as well as the date from which this obligation will actually take effect, will be defined.

For more details, I recommend you access the following link:

https://mfinante.gov.ro/ro/web/site

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Cristian Meneghetti

Italian accountant, working in Romania, expert in international taxation, graduated in Economics from the University of Venice.