The Ordinance on Electronic Invoicing entered into force on 27 November 2018.
- Since then, the supreme federal authorities and constitutional bodies of the Federal Government have been obliged to receive and process e-invoices.
- For sub-central public contracting authorities as well as sectoral contracting entities and awarding authorities, this has only been the situation
since 27 November 2019. - For business owners themselves, the obligation to issue electronic invoices to public contracting authorities of the Federal Government will exist from 27
November 2020.
Source KPMG
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