Invoice refers to the text issued by the seller to the buyer in economic activities, including the name, quality and agreed price of the products or services provided to the buyer. In addition to the advance payment, the invoice must also include the money paid by the buyer to the seller according to the agreed conditions, and must include the date and quantity, which is an important proof of accounting. According to China's accounting system, valid invoices for purchasing products or services are called tax invoices. The charging vouchers of government departments have different names in different periods and different charging items, but most of them are collectively referred to as administrative fee receipts. For internal audit and verification, each invoice must have a unique journal number to prevent duplicate or skip invoices.
Invoices shall be issued in accordance with the prescribed time limit, sequence and columns, all of which shall be issued at one time and stamped with special invoices.
People's Republic of China (PRC) State Taxation Administration of The People's Republic of China Announcement 16 (20 17) stipulates that since July 17, if the buyer is an enterprise, the taxpayer identification number or unified social credit code shall be provided to the seller when requesting the general VAT invoice; When the seller issues an ordinary VAT invoice for it, it shall fill in the taxpayer identification number or unified social credit code of the buyer in the column of "taxpayer identification number of the buyer". Invoices that do not meet the requirements shall not be used as tax vouchers. The enterprises mentioned in this announcement include companies, unincorporated enterprises as legal persons, enterprise branches, sole proprietorships, partnerships and other enterprises.
When issuing VAT invoices, the seller shall truthfully issue the contents of the invoices according to the actual sales situation, and shall not fill in the contents inconsistent with the actual transactions as required by the buyer. When the seller issues an invoice, it goes through the background of the sales platform system and the VAT invoice tax control system.
Legal basis:
Article 21 of the Measures for the Administration of Invoices in People's Republic of China (PRC) shall not be used as financial reimbursement vouchers, and any unit or individual has the right to refuse to accept them.
Twenty-second invoices shall be issued in accordance with the prescribed time limit, sequence and columns, all of which shall be issued at one time and stamped with special invoices.
No unit or individual may have the following acts of falsely issuing invoices:
(a) for others, for their own invoices inconsistent with the actual business situation;
(two) let others issue invoices for themselves that are inconsistent with the actual business situation;
(three) introduce others to issue invoices that are inconsistent with the actual business situation.