With the final regulations requested by the ANAF (National Agency Fiscal Administration) on January 1, 2022, large taxpayers will have to fill about 800 fields in an XML file.
First of all, Romania will have a voluntary testing period from July to August to December. Next stage ANAF will publish on the ANAF portal a web form on which software developers or taxpayers can register. SAF-T will be mandatory for large taxpayers.
ANAF noted that some taxpayers do not use all the management modules or have not integrated them into the same software.
Some taxpayers use invoicing modules in different software. In this context, Romania considers the SAF-T Version 2.0 (OECD architecture) perfect.
What is the implementation stage?
ANAF carried out the analysis and design stage. They substantiated the functionalities of the system and those regarding the process of submitting the declarations, respectively technical platform necessary to support SAF-T.
In April 2021, they organize a new round of discussions with the private sector to present the architecture and functionality of the system so that taxpayers can adjust their IT systems in time.
Benefits for the business environment, according to ANAF:
-reduction of the cost of compliance,
-time spent at taxpayers’ offices by tax inspectors,
-elimination of certain declarations and their simplification.
