Electronic invoicing is rapidly becoming a standard business process. Governments are pushing for the adoption of B2G invoicing to optimise the public procurement process and also to provide a boost to the adoption of e-invoicing between businesses.
Apart from countries that have introduced general e-invoicing mandates to improve fiscal controls – most of which have so far been in Latin America – countries in Europe and some in Asia are looking towards the PEPPOL framework to generate both business process and fiscal benefits through standardisation.
PEPPOL was established to simplify interoperability, initially for public procurement transactions, but it is being built upon to encompass fiscal reporting or invoicing ‘clearance’ concepts as well.
Source: SOVOS
