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Over here it functions as follows:

When you're buying an item you declare you need an invoice on it and punch in your tax id.

Later, when you're filling your monthly taxes, you include that invoice in an XML file (plenty of generators available along with the free government-issued one), sign it with your digital ID and send that to the Ministry of Finance servers (MF servers for short). The MF servers then compare your entry to what all the people that sold you stuff entered.

This exists largely to prevent VAT manipulation, but at the same time gives all involved parties a clear, regular indicator that everything is fine in terms of taxes.

I'm a contractor and do this little dance every month using an accounting SaaS.



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