E-invoicing mandate — Sri Lanka

A regime has been announced or is in legislation, but no binding start date is fixed. Planning here means planning for a direction, not for a date.

The stages over time

  1. 1/1/2026

    Sri Lanka · invoice content and registration in force

    ⚠ This is a format requirement, not an e-invoicing mandate. The gazette prescribes the layout and mandatory content of the VAT invoice, not the transmission channel — the paper invoice remains valid. The same requirement was re-issued twice within ten months, effective 1 July and 6 August 2026; that is not a tightening.

    Legal basis: Gazette Extraordinary No. 2463/05 (Inland Revenue Department) · Last reviewed: 10/27/2026
  2. 5/4/2026

    Sri Lanka · reporting obligation in force unverified

    The tax authority has announced a national e-invoicing system. ⚠ All that is documented is the notice itself; as far as can be seen it is a pilot with selected businesses, and no obligation for everyone follows from it.

    Legal basis: Notice SEC/PN/VAT/2026-03 — Implementation of the National e-Invoicing System (IRD) · Last reviewed: 10/27/2026

Platforms and authorities

RAMIS · Inland Revenue Department (IRD)

What Invoiceflair can do — Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: the engine currently carries no national format of its own. Validating, viewing and converting the European formats remains available — only a country-specific mandatory format is missing.

Stated limit: Invoiceflair creates, validates and reads formats. It is not a Peppol access point and not a clearing service — it does not perform transmission to an authority's platform.

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