As of June 6, 2014, B2G e-invoicing became mandatory for some public sectors in Italy, such as the Ministries, the Tax Agency and the state security forces. The deadline for full mandatory B2G e-invoicing in Italy is set for June 2015.
This regulation was accompanied by an additional three-month transition deadline. So, as from September 6, 2014 these public organisations will only pay the bill if the suppliers sent the invoice in the required electronic billing format.
The Polytechnic University of Milan Observatory (Politecnico di Milano) did some intermediary research on the past three months on how things are going and they’ve come with these findings:
- More than 31,000 public offices had already signed up to the new system, by the end of August 2014.
- 12,170 applications related with Local Authorities, even though these administrations are not required to migrate to electronic billing until March 31, 2015.
- the number of documents received is much lower than expected for this first phase (between 7.5 and 10 million invoices).
- In July 2014 almost 200.000 e-invoices were received. 52000 of those (26,5%) were rejected, because they did not meet the requirements.
- June 2014 was even worse, when 40% of the documents were rejected. From the positive side: there was an improvement of 13,5% less rejected invoices from June to Juy.
- Polytechnic University of Milan Observatory is claimed that mandatory e-invoicing in E-invoicing saves €17 per e-invoice. €14 relates to the automation process and some €4 on reduction in material costs (print, paper, archive, and so on).
In total, Polytechnic University of Milan Observatory the annual benefit to the public sector could reach EUR 1000 million. However, the research doesn’t show the extra costs, drawbacks and benefits are for the Italian business, i.e. the net result for the Italian society at large.
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