In accordance with the regulation of the Federal Ministry of Finances from December 2003 (BGBl. II No. 583/2003) electronic invoices are value added tax deductible only if they are digitally signed with an advanced or qualified certificate.

So far the VAT deductibility of purely electronically issued invoices was disputed and had to be individually argued with each financial examination.

With the decree of the Federal Ministry of Finances from 13 July 2005 (BMF-010219/0183-iv/9/2005) electronic billing is regulated and gets the VAT deductibility straight now also for electronic invoices signed with an advanced certificate.

emerion sends invoices digitally signed starting from now.

The email which you receive during billing, contains the PDF with the invoice, which is signed with an advanced certificate in accordance with the decree of the Federal Ministry of Finance.

Further information about signed invoices, as well as information how to set up the Adobe® Reader® to recognize the certificate, can be found at our web site:

http://www.emerion.com/signature

Of course you can receive already issued invoices as signed invoices.

The signed PDF an already issued invoice can be downloaded easily in the ControlPanel. More information please see here.