Currently, e-Invoice is about taxpayers’ relationship with the government, but that will change. “If it were up to me, I would prefer that e-Invoice be implemented for all taxpayers as of yesterday. If it’s up to the European Commission, I’m still waiting for them to grant us exemptions,” said Lucian Geiusz, president of ANAF.

According to him, we still have no concession from the European Commission regarding the transition to the B2B system.

“B2G: that is, all companies that have a relationship with the government already send their invoice through this system. This does not help me at all as an IRS employee. There is no tax evasion when you work with the government and issue an invoice, the government pays you through the bank, through the treasury. It’s all recorded,” he said during the cursdeguvernare.ro conference.

• “I am interested in the fact that the one from the Red Dragon can no longer load the trunk of the man from Oresti, who owns a shop and does not issue him a single bill. He goes to buy a bill from the corner of the street to write something down in the accounting department.”

“Practically no product, no product can be moved to the territory of Romania without entering this invoice into the electronic system,” explained Geiusz.

• “There are countries where he has been working for several years, such as Hungary. We still need that retreat: we’ve been told verbally that it’s okay.”

Why do you need a release?

“Because under the VAT directive you cannot force entry through a certain system. Basically, now we’re back to the centralized thing. Each account will have a unique number,” the head of ANAF explained.

• “There were about 5 exchanges of appeals, appeals, we are still sending the mechanism for inspection by the Commission. They said everything is fine now and let’s wait until they give it to us.”

“It will be difficult. We are preparing for 2-2.5 million accounts per day. The money is allocated through PNRR to buy these huge servers, and the deadline for the purchase is December 31, 2023. I think that from January 1, 2024, we should enter a trial period,” said Lucian Geiusz.

• “We’ll probably start with the big taxpayers first to see how it works for 2-3 months and then expand very quickly.

• This is one of the main mechanisms of combating tax evasion.”

“It is very difficult to go after someone who is evading taxes and catch them 2 years later when they are being audited. By introducing as many structural instruments as possible, you distract him from further tax evasion. The aim is to increase voluntary compliance to compliance and payment, not to catch as many evaders as possible,” said the ANAF chairman.