Tax Reporting Cycle Unaffected by UK E-Invoicing, Official Says

The UK won’t change the tax reporting cycle for businesses mandated to adopt e-invoicing from 2029, an HMRC official said Wednesday.

The country hasn’t yet decided on whether businesses will be required to simultaneously send their e-invoices to His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, Jennifer Staves, the office’s program director of e-invoicing, said at the Accountex London 2026 event in London.

Most businesses will be expected to comply with mandatory e-invoicing from April 2029 through commercial accounting or invoicing software, Staves said.

The UK will require e-invoicing for all VAT invoices in business-to-business or business-to-government transactions, according to a November ...