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Australia e-invoicing

Invoicerr does not support Australia

No Australia data file exists anywhere in this repository — no country policy, no identifiers, no tax system, no transmission channel. Nothing on this page is implemented. It is here so that someone who wants Australia support knows what adding it would involve. The countries Invoicerr does cover are listed in the country directory.

Australia exchanges e-invoices over the Peppol Network, using the Peppol PINT A-NZ format overseen by the Australian Taxation Office and the Peppol Authority. Government agencies must be able to receive Peppol invoices; business-to-business use is voluntary but encouraged by major accounting platforms.

What supporting Australia would involve​

SystemPeppol Network, using the PINT A-NZ specification
AuthorityATO — Australian Taxation Office, with the Peppol Authority governing the standard
FormatEN 16931 (Peppol BIS). This repository already builds and validates it (formats/peppol-bis-provider.ts, formats/ubl-provider.ts), so the format would not have to be written from scratch.
TransmissionPeppol Access Point. The Peppol transport was removed from this repository on 2026-09-15 for want of a real Access Point account, so one would have to be built.
Inherited, unverified

Carried over from an earlier research pass in this repository's own history, and never checked against a primary source. Leads, not facts — confirm every line before writing it into a data file.

  • Post-audit model; B2G reception is mandatory, B2B adoption remains voluntary.
  • PINT A-NZ replaced the older BIS Billing 3.0 standard in May 2025.
  • Standard GST rate is 10 percent.

Which catalogues a contributor would add​

Adding a country is data, not code. Adding a country is the procedure and the contract each file has to satisfy; this is only the shopping list for Australia.

  • country-policy/data/au.json — which document actions Australia allows. Start here: without this file every action is refused with a 403, naming the country.
  • country-identifiers/data/au.json — which national identifier a party must carry.
  • tax/tax-systems/data/au.json and vat-rates/data/au.json — the tax kind, and the rate ladder offered on an invoice line.
  • correction-routes/data/au.json — all eleven canonical correction routes, unverified where unresearched, never omitted.
  • b2g-routing/data/au.json — the channel and format an Australian public buyer requires.
  • transports/channel-policy/data/au.json — whether a channel is legally required of a seller established in Australia, and from what date.
  • archive/retention/data/au.json — how long an archived document is kept, and what the duration is counted from.

Add mentions/, content-requirements/, country-fields/, reporting/ and domestic-reverse-charge/ only where the law actually gives them content.

Data alone will not finish the job here: the Peppol network is a transmission channel this repository does not implement, which is code, not a JSON file — see When a country needs more than a file.

Want Australia supported?​

Check the open compliance issues first. If there is no issue for Australia, open one and name which of the files above you need — a request that names one mechanism is far more actionable than "please add Australia".