Costa Rica: New Electronic Invoice Project Announced

The new system proposed by the government will include all professionals who create invoices and not only those who work freelance, as had been mentioned in the current project so far.

Monday, June 23, 2014

The pilot project implemented by the Directorate General of Taxation in 2013 will cease to be effective as of now, as will the software and systems that were purchased for its deployment last year. The Ministry of Finance has decided to discard the work done by the previous administration and start a new project for mandatory electronic signatures from scratch.

Fernando Rodríguez, Deputy Minister of Revenue at the Directorate General of Taxation (DGT), noted that "... The new proposal includes the creation of a system which allows the gathering, processing and control of information. 'Making the use of this type of invoicing mandatory, without approving a system with these characteristics would make no sense.' "

The main feature of the new system mentioned by Rodriguez is that it will ensure the processing of information making data capture effective ... In order to achieve this approaches have been made to Radiographic Costarricense (ICE), with the aim that this institution would deal with the technical aspect of the system. Rodriguez said ... 'We believe the best thing is to hire a state enterprise.' "

"...Although a specific date has not yet been set for the launch, the Deputy expected to be ready by the end of 2014. "

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