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Faturação Eletrónica para a Administração Pública

Electronic invoicing for public administration

2022-01-07

As of January 1, 2022, all companies or individual entrepreneurs working with Public Entities (City Councils, Parish Councils, Public Schools, etc.), will have to have a program that can do electronic invoicing.

What is e-Invoicing for Public Administration?

Electronic Invoicing is an invoice that is issued, transmitted and received in a structured electronic format that allows its automatic and electronic processing. Therefore, a pdf invoice is not considered an e-invoice.

A European standard has been created for the semantic data model of the essential elements of an e-invoice. To support the legal requirements, the semantic data model proposed for Portugal is CIUS-PT.

All public contracting authorities must be able to receive and process e-invoices from domestic and foreign senders.