Tuesday 31st March, 2015

From today's date,  electronic invoicing becomes mandatory for all companies supplying the public sector in Italy.

In order to facilitate the new requirements, Italian payment processor SIA has rolled out the ‘Easy City’ electronic invoicing and digital payments platform in Italy, targeting the public sector, consumers and business.

SIA Easy City is a digital platform in Italy which allows businesses and citizens to connect to Public Administration bodies, covering the entire financial cycle with a series of integrated services, from electronic invoicing to payments in multichannel mode, and providing the debit and credit situation to the P.A. bodies in real time. With SIA EasyCity, bodies can handle in an automated manner all the phases of the electronic invoicing process via a web-based service managed by SIA in its role as enabled intermediary for the connection to the Interchange System (SdI).

From today, e-invoicing for approximately 2 million companies supplying the public sector must begin, impacting citizens and businesses that deal with Italian government agencies.