Regulatory Analysis
The Indian Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) has announced that new Invoice Reporting Portals (IRP) have been onboarded. IRPs act as a bridge between the taxpayer (or their Accredited Service) Providers and the tax authority backend platform called the GST Portal for the purposes of e-invoice issuance. Until the new 4 were IRPs announced, […]
On February 24th, the Senior Minister of State, Mr. Chee Hong Tat, announced that within the next few years, InvoiceNow will become the default e-invoice submission channel for all Government vendors. InvoiceNow is a nationwide E-invoicing method operating on the Peppol network that facilitates the direct delivery of invoices in a structured digital format. Singapore has been implementing […]
Pakistan approved an increase to the standard sales tax rate to 18% from 17% through the Finance (Supplementary) Bill, 2023. The Bill, as posted on the Parliament website on February 21, 2023, indicates that the rate change is effective at once. The Finance (Supplementary) Bill, 2023 can be found here.
China is expanding its fully digitalized e-invoicing (e-fapiao) pilot program, currently as of 1 January 2023 in scope to issue a fully digitalized e-fapiao are Shanghai, Guangdong, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan, Xiamen, Chongqing, Qingdao, Tianjin, Dalian, and Shaanxi provinces. Additionally, taxpayers nationwide are able to accept e-fapiao issued by the selected taxpayers in the above provinces. […]
China announced the 3% VAT rate normally applied for small-scale VAT taxpayers will be reduced to 1% from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023. This rate reduction is in addition to the announcement of the exemption for taxpayers with a monthly turnover of less than 100,000 yuan which was previously reported on by Sovos. […]
On January 9, 2023 China announced an extension to the small business exemption from VAT. From January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023, small-scale VAT taxpayers with monthly sales of less than 100,000 yuan (including the amount) will be exempted from VAT. The announcement can be found here. Please note that the exemption for small-scale […]
China previously announced from 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022, small-scale VAT taxpayers would be exempt from VAT on taxable sales income subject to a 3% levy rate. The exemption was set to expire on 31 December 2022. The original announcement can be found here.
Palau is implementing a VAT style tax known as the Palau Goods and Services Tax (PGST). The PGST will be imposed at a rate of 10% and will come into effect on 1 January 2023. Businesses with an average annual taxable supply of more than $300,000 in Palau are required to register for PGST. Mandatory […]
Effective 1 January 2023, Singapore will be extending GST to B2C imported non-digital services and goods imported via air or post that are valued up to (and including) the current GST import relief threshold of S$400. Non-resident providers of non-digital services and imported low-value goods can register under the Overseas Vendor Registration regime which is […]
Pursuant to Decree No. 15/2022/ND-CP, the standard VAT rate in Vietnam is increasing to 10% from the temporary 8% rate effective 1 January 2023. The decree can be found here.
Singapore’s Parliament passed a bill increasing the goods and services tax by 1 percent. The standard GST rate will be increasing to 8% from 7% effective January 1, 2023. The amendment bill can be found here.
The Uzbekistan State Tax Committee issued a Press Release on September 19, 2022, regarding changes in the VAT rates as per the head of state. The standard VAT rate will be decreasing to 12% from 15% effective January 1, 2023. The press release can be found here.
On November 22, 2022, the Deputy Commissioner General of Taxation published Circular 220-TD/CIR/2022/04 increasing the general goods and services tax rate from 6% to 8%. This rate change will be effective from 1 January 2023. The Circular can be found here.
New Zealand is implementing changes to its GST invoicing and record keeping requirements, which are set to enter into force from April 1, 2023. These changes include: The use of tax invoices will be replaced by a more general requirement to provide and keep certain records known as taxable supply information. Terminology: […]
The Shanghai Taxation Bureau released a notice to inform that from June 25, 2022, the Xuhui District is included in the pilot program for the fully digitized e-invoice. This pilot program keeps expanding its scope of jurisdictions across China. However, for the time being, only selected taxpayers in Shanghai, Inner Mongolia, and Guangdong are able […]
In South Korea, e-invoicing has been mandatory for all corporate businesses since 2011. From 2012, individual businesses (entrepreneurs) have also been required to comply with e-invoicing obligations if they meet the threshold limits which have been updated a couple of times over the years. Currently, an individual business whose aggregate supply value (including transactions that […]
The Chinese e-invoicing pilot program, which has gradually been expanded in its new form since January 2021, has now welcomed a new batch of cities into the program. The updated version of the Chinese CTC e-invoicing pilot program, which is intended to allow businesses to issue e-invoices as well as to receive and verify them […]
A new timeline for the go-live of the Philippine e-invoicing system (EIS) was announced at the webinar held by BIR today on the 12th October. The launch of the pilot program for e-invoicing (which targets the country’s 100 largest taxpayers) has been postponed with six months, from 1 January to 1 July 2022. As part […]