Small businesses, as well as PFA, are still interested these days if they can fulfill their obligation to submit invoices to ANAF for free. Groups in social networks help each other.

Built-in e-invoicing programs that offer the solution for free have been around for a while. Some are free for a year, others for a few months. There are also cases where if you sign up before a certain date, you can use these services for life without paying anything.

Entrepreneurs do not use the free MF service because they consider it too complicated and do not automatically store company data. Each field has to be filled from scratch, which means wasted time.

Some are also trying to find solutions to avoid paying for the purchase of a qualified digital certificate. Unfortunately, no free solutions were found. If in December we talked about the price of 30-45 euros per year without VAT, today it reaches 47 euros. Demand has increased. These for 3 years then amounted to 81 euros, and today: 96 euros (also without VAT).

Also, people who worked on very old computers or didn’t use them at all found themselves having to buy newer ones to meet their obligations.

They say their goal has always been to make things, and they’ve always sent all invoices to the accounting firms they work with. Now it is difficult for them to learn how the system works and submit invoices to the Ministry of Finance system.

Currently, several invoices are still being uploaded to the system. Data as of January 30 indicate 1.1 million. Many people have not started submitting for various reasons: they have not been able to get a certificate or they have problems with registration in the SPV for various reasons (for example, problems with the document confirming the certificate or the ZIP archive with those uploaded to the MF system is not very good quality), and there are also cases when they have not started to do this, because they hope that the system will be removed.

In addition, from May 1 to April, so there is no rush. If the term of the fine is not extended, they must do everything possible to collect them all by the end of March, so as not to be under sanctions.

E-invoicing is mandatory from January 1, 2024 and if you have a company, PFA, NGO, you will have to declare invoices through a Virtual Private Space (SPV) or through other software offered by various companies.

What penalty will you receive if you do not declare an invoice to ANAF and what is your term / E and the period during which sanctions do not apply

The deadline for sending invoices to the SPV (e-Invoice) is 5 calendar days from the moment of invoicing, but no later than 5 calendar days compared to the deadline for invoicing provided by the Tax Code, i.e. the 15th of the following month.

If you do not declare, it is considered a violation and is punishable by a fine of 5,000 lei to 10,000 lei for legal entities classified as high tax payers.

Small and medium-sized enterprises will receive a fine from 2,500 to 5,000 lei.

Other taxpayers, i.e. lower than average, will receive a fine of 1,000 to 2,500 lei.

IMPORTANTLY: For the first 3 months of 2024, sanctions are not applied.

Finance Minister Marcel Bolosh recently announced that he is considering extending this deadline.

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