Sri Lanka Tax Agency Issues Notice on Implementation of National E-Invoicing System for VAT

The Sri Lankan Inland Revenue Department May 4 issued Notice No. SEC/PN/VAT/2026-03, on the implementation of the National e-Invoicing System. The notice includes: 1) the system will integrate VAT invoice data between a taxpayer’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and the Revenue Administration Management Information System (RAMIS) through the Web Application Programming Interface (WEB API); 2) after the current pilot phase, implementation will be expanded to VAT-registered export-oriented enterprises, then to all VAT-registered persons; 3) the VAT schedules automatically transmitted by the system cover output tax, credit notes and debit notes, and zero-rated supplies; 4) if a supplier’s upload of ...