Thursday 9th July, 2015

The final deadline for a group of 239 large Peruvian companies to adopt e-invoicing is set for 1st August, as designated by SUNAT, Peru's tax authority.

Initially, these large companies were due to switch to the new system in September last year, in compliance with Resolution Nº 374-2013. However, that deadline was postponed until April this year, then finally extended again until August, so that all taxpayers would have enough time to get their technology in-place.

In Peru, e-invoicing has been up and running since 2010, although its use is voluntary. Over the past two years SUNAT has been moving towards making it mandatory, as in other Latin American countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Chile or Argentina.

A new group of 778 Peruvian businesses is scheduled to join the Electronic Issuing System (SEE) by 1st January, 2016. At present, over 7400 taxpayers are using e-invoicing voluntarily. The SUNAT final goal is that by 2017, 100% of taxpayers will be using e-invoicing in their business transactions.