Mandatory E-invoicing in the Philippines. Is Your Company Ready?Getting your business ready with a reliable document exchange solution,
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The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), the governing body in the Philippines responsible for collecting over half of the total government revenue, is steadily moving toward a more involved model that resembles a system used in South Korea.
Tax Office (BIR) is responsible not only for the implementation of the project in accordance with the Tax Ordinance. The aim of its activities is, in addition to reducing VAT fraud, also to bring business benefits to enterprises, such as optimizing settlement processes with the tax authority. The entire enterprise follows the after-world trend of digitizing tax systems.
2022Mandatory e-invoicing for government invoices (B2G)
2023E-invoicing of B2B transactions of large taxpayers and exporters
2024Mandatory e-invoice reporting via governmental portal for all taxpayers
The Philippines requires issuing an electronic invoice to the recipient and reporting this invoice data to the tax authority (JSON format) through EIS (Electronic Invoicing System). EIS supports the transmission of official receipts, sales invoices, credit and debit notes, as well as further similar accounting documents. It is a web-based system that can be accessed through its URL.In total, the system consists of three portals:
Invoicing reports are sent to the government's central platform, the Continuous Transaction Control (CTC) invoice reporting and monitoring system,
Companies are obligated to send electronic invoices to the BIR in JSON format.
Current acts and goverment websites conntected with e-invoicing in the Philippines:
Comarch is currently monitoring the development related to the planned e-invoicing mandate. E-invoicing activities are conducted within regular EDI. Comarch is establishing a connection with the BIR system.
