From the State Administration of Taxation, Goods and Services Tax Department learned that since the implementation of the VAT electronic invoice system for three months, 60 million electronic invoices have been issued, of which more than 2,000 electronic invoices were issued through cell phones.
The VAT e-invoice system is an e-invoice system developed by the State Administration of Taxation (SAT) on the basis of an upgraded version of the VAT invoice system.On December 1, 2015, the VAT e-invoice system was implemented nationwide. Previously, the system has been completed as a pilot in four provinces and cities, namely Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang and Shenzhen. Currently, Beijing and Shandong are piloting the issuance of ordinary VAT invoices from mobile terminals.On January 8, the nation's first e-invoice for cell phones was issued in Beijing.
As of February 24, 31 provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions and cities with separate plans have issued e-invoices through the system. Among those provinces and cities, Beijing had the largest number of invoices issued, followed by Guangdong.
For taxpayers, the biggest highlight of the implementation is the realization of electronic invoice reimbursement into the accounts.
"Previously, electronic invoices could only be used as vouchers for consumer protection. After the implementation of the system, taxpayers can be used for both after-sale rights protection and reimbursement." The relevant person in charge of the Department of Goods and Labor of the State Administration of Taxation (SAT) told reporters that taxpayers can print their own e-invoices after obtaining the layout file of the e-invoice, which has the same legal effect, basic purpose and basic use regulations as the ordinary VAT invoices supervised by the tax authorities.
Cai Lei, vice president of taxation and capital of Jingdong Group, said, "In the past two years, e-invoices are only considered as a trial run, and the issuance of the 'reimbursement version' of e-invoices means that e-invoices are fully implemented."
In addition to functioning no differently than paper invoices, the pilot industry for e-invoices has also expanded.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Department of Goods and Labor, the focus of the national implementation is on industries with a large volume of invoicing, such as e-commerce, telecommunications, express delivery, public utilities and other industries.
Unlike the feelings of taxpayers, in the view of the tax authorities, the implementation has unified the national system and standardized the national standards.
"The original e-invoice system was developed by each region on its own. The electronic invoices of different provinces and cities were also not interconnected. This time, the State Administration of Taxation has unified the relevant standards and specifications, and the data after electronic invoices are issued are transmitted to the information system of tax authorities in real time, so that interoperability has been realized **** nationwide." Liu Feng, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal State Administration of Taxation Goods and Labor Department, said.
The reporter learned that the State Administration of Taxation has specially formulated a program for convergence and transformation with the electronic invoice system that has been implemented around the country. The program provides that from January 1, electronic invoices to be issued by all the value-added tax electronic invoice system, before the provinces pilot research and development of other issuance of electronic invoice system to stop using.
Compared with previous provincial pilots, the VAT e-invoice relies on an upgraded version of the VAT invoice system, realizing a unified system for issuing invoices, unified ticket samples, and unified technical and business standards, which facilitates cost savings for enterprises, preservation and use by taxpayers, management by tax authorities, and the application of big data, as well as helping to promote the healthy and rapid development of e-commerce and the circulation of foreign trade.
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