Austria

Legal background

Legal background on B2G e-invoicing in Austria

Responsible institutions

• Federal Ministry of Finance
• Austrian Federal Computing Center

Affected entities (B2B, B2G, B2C)

Austria mandates e-invoicing for B2G for all invoices sent to federal institutions.

e-invoice document standard

Austria uses its own national E-invoicing standard ebInterface. In addition Peppol can be used to submit electronic invoices using the Universal Business Language (UBL) format.

An overview of the used standards and fields can be found here.

Transmission standards

Electronic invoice documents may be sent using one of the following channels:

• Manual entry using a Web Form
• Manual upload of an ebInterface XML instance using a Web Form
• Sending ebInterface via a custom Web Service
• Sending UBL via Peppol

Most of the electronic invoices in Austria are being sent via Web Service or Peppol. The use of Peppol has seen a significant uptake in recent years.

Contact options

• ebInterface and E-invoicing support forum