Source: Maxpress - SP, 16/07/2009

The implementation of the Public Digital Bookkeeping System (Sped) was the subject of a conference held on Monday (13), with approximately one thousand participants, at the headquarters of the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Fiesp).

Sped consists of the tripod digital Tax Bookkeeping, digital Bookkeeping and Electronic Invoice (NF-e).

The president of Fiesp and the Center for Industries of the State of São Paulo (Ciesp), Paulo Skaf, stated that “both Sped and NF-e have become tools for competitiveness and streamlining Brazilian companies”.
“We need incentives”, asked José Maria Chapina Alcazar, president of Sescon (Union of Accounting Service Companies and Advisory, Expertise, Information and Research Companies in the State of São Paulo). “Large companies absorb new technologies, but small and medium-sized companies need support to invest in management systems,” he said.
“The system encourages associations and strengthens the bases”, was the analysis made by Paulo Henrique Schoueri, director of the Central de Serviços (Cser) of Fiesp.
What is certain is that by the end of this year more than 90 sectors of the economy will join Sped.

Electronic Invoice goes beyond ancillary obligations: opinion is from representative of the Finance Secretariat

The Electronic Invoice is a national model of fiscal document that replaces the paper issue. It became mandatory from April 2008 for some sectors and, in September of this year, another 54 sectors will enter the system.
The NF-e replaces format 1 and 1A and its adoption does not impact the commercial activity of companies and goes beyond accessory obligations. The analysis was carried out by Clovis Antonio de Souza, income tax agent and member of the project team of the Electronic Invoice project of the São Paulo State Finance Department.
Today, almost 8 thousand companies are NF-e issuers. In the balance sheet presented: more than 86 million authorized invoices (until 8/7/2009) and an average of more than 13 million monthly authorizations.

Sped: among the advantages, digital validation

Márcio F. Tonelli (Tax Auditor and Technical Supervisor of Sped Contábil da Receita Federal do Brasil), when dealing with Sped Contábil at the Conference, stressed that the accounting remains in charge of the company: “what the system does is the digital validation of books . Sped must be seen as a management tool ”. Sped Contábil replaces commercial bookkeeping books.

Ahead of the third panel of the day, Sped Fiscal, Wilson Bento Junior (Income Tax Agent of the São Paulo State Finance Secretariat) stressed that “resources are rationalized due to standardization, reducing the Brazil Cost”.

Other advantages pointed out are the incentive to use electronic relationships between companies (B2B), the improvement of internal processes, including operational logistics, reduction of bookkeeping errors and greater competitiveness among companies due to the reduction of unfair competition.

The Fiscal Sped is a digital file, gathering the set of document deeds and other important information for the tax authorities.
The initiative of the Conference on Sped and NF-e came from the Central de Serviços (Cser) and the Legal Department (Dejur) of Fiesp.

More information: there is a primer on Sped and NF-e available on the Fiesp website (http://www.fiesp.com.br/sindical-juridica/cartilha_sped.aspx). Forward any questions to the email: doubts@fiesp.org.br.