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In EU it is illegal to edit an invoice outside a program that keep track of all changes, bill number etc. Not the same in US?
by punnerud 6y ago
In EU it is illegal to edit an invoice outside a program that keep track of all changes, bill number etc.
Not the same in US?
- londons_explore 6y agoCitation needed... I don't think laws are ever that prescriptive about what you have to do. As far as I know, the only requirement is when the tax inspector arrives, you need to be able to produce a complete and accurate list of all invoices you have ever sent to customers.
- DanBC 6y agoThey aren't editing an invoice, they're using a template to create a new invoice.
- J_cst 6y agoSource?
- killerpopiller 6y agoat least for Germany: digital invoices shall be processed in a way that manipulation can be ruled out (GoBD). Hence companies use special scanner and document management systems which document the Revisionssicherheit.
- corty 6y agoAnd that is the new, more relaxed situation. At first, digital invoices were required to be signed with a qualified signature, i.e. spend a few hundred quid a year on certificates by a few select CAs (only the usual german "suspects" could qualify due to intentionally onerous requirements).
- AnssiH 6y agoEven before issuance? No such requirement in Finland at least, so clearly not an EU level requirement. The Finnish VAT Act does, however, require that companies sending and receiving invoices ensure that the mandatory invoice data is not modified after issuance (209 g §).