- Guatemala has accelerated digital transformation of its tax administration with emphasis on modernizing processes, facilitating voluntary compliance, and strengthening control mechanisms using data and technology
- The SAT launched SATData in 2025 as a tax statistics platform for data governance and is promoting technological modernization in customs using AI, data mining, and disruptive technologies
- Online Electronic Invoicing has expanded significantly with over 99% of total invoicing done electronically as of 2023, involving about 1,300,000 issuers and more than 7 billion documents issued by August 2025
- The tax authority is implementing automation and daily cross checking of transactional data in near real time to detect discrepancies between declared income and observed financial activity
- Risk based control and smart auditing approaches use statistical models, predictive analysis, and automatic alerts to schedule on site visits and audits more efficiently
Source: bdo.global
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