Author: Communication from the Government of Bahia

Source: 07/11/2008

In less than seven months of mandatory issuance of the Electronic Invoice (NF-e) by contributors in the segment of cigarettes and fuels (cigarette distributors, alcohol plants, oil refineries, transporters and retail resellers), 40 million NF- es have already been authorized for a movement of more than R $ 850 billion.

In Bahia alone, the state that is nationally responsible for the technical and executive coordination of the Electronic Invoice System and one of the first to process NF-es in the country, more than 1,3 million bills have already been authorized.

“These are very representative numbers and show that, since the implementation of the system, in April this year, everything has been working very well. With the NF-e, the Tax Authorities are sharing information, which will have an impact on the increase of tax justice and simplification of the fulfillment of accessory obligations by taxpayers ”, explains Eudaldo Almeida, coordinator of the National Meeting of State Tax Administrators and Coordinators (Encat) and auditor of the State Finance Secretariat (Sefaz).

The Electronic Invoice is a document issued and stored electronically, in order to document an operation of circulation of goods or provision of services that occurred between suppliers and taxpayers. Legal validity is guaranteed by the digital signature between the two parties, prior to the occurrence of the Fact Generator.

The system brings a series of benefits to taxpayers such as the elimination of typing invoices in the receipt of goods and consequent bookkeeping errors, in addition to the logistics planning that is made possible by the early receipt of information contained in the NF-e.

For the issuer of the Nota Fiscal, the system allows the reduction of costs for the acquisition of forms, printing and storage of tax documents.

More companies will issue NF-es

From December of this year, from April and from September 2009, new companies will use the NF-e, which means changing their current paper invoice issuing systems by digital invoices only.

The companies that manufacture automobiles, cements, alcoholic beverages and soft drinks, manufacturers and distributors of medicines, refrigerators and meat wholesalers, in addition to agents that, in the free contracting environment (ACL), sell electricity to final consumers, and manufacturers of steel products and pig iron, make up the group that starts issuing in December.

As of April next year, the NF-e becomes mandatory for a second group of taxpayers, among which are importers of automobiles, auto parts and tires manufacturers, aluminum, cans, PET bottles, paints, varnishes. , petroleum solvents and automotive lubricants, producers and importers of LPG and CNG, manufacturers and importers of thermoplastic resins, distributors, wholesalers or importers of alcoholic beverages and soft drinks, industrial processors, wholesalers and manufacturers of tobacco and related products and steel and wholesalers pig iron.

The last group will use the Electronic Invoice from September 2009. They are: manufacturers of cosmetics, perfumery and cleaning products, manufacturers of animal feed, manufacturers of paper products, manufacturers and importers of components electronics, information technology, communication equipment, audio and video devices, blank media and telephone devices, manufacturers of medical devices, manufacturers and importers of batteries, batteries, electrical equipment, wires, cables, conductors, stoves and refrigerators.

And more: establishments that perform wheat milling, wholesalers and producers of coffee, manufacturers of vegetable oils, pesticides, fertilizers, homeopathic medicines, herbal medicines, for veterinary use and pharmaceuticals, wholesalers and importers of malt, wholesalers and manufacturers of dairy products, manufacturers of plastic material, steel tubes, PVC tubes, metal artifacts, stopwatches, watches, optical instruments, cargo transport machines, air conditioners, tractors and jewelry artifacts, bread and glass manufacturers and wholesalers plans, sawmills, wholesalers of merchandise in general, dealers of new vehicles, companies in the field of yarn and weaving and manufacturers and importers of floors and ceramic tiles.