Poland - create automatically the VAT SmartPdf file from SAP

Companies selling across European Union borders have to submit EC Sales List (ESL). This should contain the details of sales or transfers of goods and services to other VAT registered companies in other EU countries summarized per VAT registration number. The tax authorities in the EU use the listings to check whether VAT is declared by the parties involved in cross-border transactions (e.g. no mismatches).

In Poland a specific extra local requirement applies. From 1 January 2017 taxpayers making transactions with EU members will be required to submit mandatory the declaration only in electronic form. The aimed is earlier identification of possible abuse. The summarized amount per VAT registration number for the sales of goods, acquisition of good and services need to be reported separately to the authorities in PDF.

The PL Tax Authorities provides a VAT Smartform Pdf that a company has to fill in with the requested information. That Smartform has to be mandatory used to meet the requirement and without support the data has to be entered manually by the company.

Entering data is a time consuming process. Besides the impact on internal resources, such manual activity increases the risk of data errors, i.e. with entering the VAT registration numbers in the Smartform Pdf.

Stricter penalties apply for individuals involved in tax fraud and penalties are introduced for taxpayers who do meet the legal requirement of submitting declarations in electronic format.

We offer a new SAP add-on solution that creates automatically the VAT SmartPdf file from SAP. When our SAF-T SAP add-on solution has been purchased this additional functionality will be managed under SAF-T cockpit as a different report.

Source: SAP - submitting close to real time data to tax authorities