- Legal basis now published – The Eswatini Revenue Service (ERS) has announced that the VAT amendment introducing Electronic Fiscal Documents (EFDs) has been published, providing the statutory foundation for the country’s fiscalisation reform. This builds on Eswatini’s broader digitalisation agenda—including the 2024–2027 Digitalisation Roadmap and the 2025 procurement process for e-invoicing, POS fiscal devices, and real-time reporting technology—and reflects the government’s 2026 Budget focus on closing an estimated E 4 billion annual compliance gap rather than raising VAT rates. [africa-press.net], [comarch.com], [vatabout.com]
- Sector-specific engagement with wholesale and retail – On 24 July 2026, ERS held a workshop specifically focused on the wholesale and retail sectors, which the 2026 Budget Speech identified as particularly vulnerable to VAT leakage. The session forms part of ERS’s stakeholder-engagement and awareness effort ahead of mandatory adoption, targeting the segments where point-of-sale transactions and cash sales create the greatest compliance risk. [vatabout.com]
- Action point: prepare POS and fiscal-document readiness – Affected businesses should begin mapping their point-of-sale and fiscal-document requirements now, while awaiting detailed sequencing and mandatory go-live instructions from ERS. Eswatini’s planned framework is expected to follow a five-corner (Peppol-style) model combining B2B e-invoicing, fiscal-device integration, and real-time reporting to ERS, with earlier public plans pointing toward a phased national rollout. The official source for further guidance is the Eswatini Revenue Service. [vatcalc.com], [comarch.com]
Source https://www.ers.org.sz/
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