BIR — Philippines e-invoicing

Invoicerr does not support the Philippines

No Philippines 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 Philippines support knows what adding it would involve. The countries Invoicerr does cover are listed in the country directory.

The Philippines requires mandatory e-invoicing through the Bureau of Internal Revenue's own e-Invoice System, authorised before an invoice reaches the buyer. Software used to issue invoices must itself be accredited by the BIR.

What supporting the Philippines would involve

System	EIS — the BIR's e-Invoice System
Authority	BIR — Bureau of Internal Revenue
Format	A national schema (EIS). No provider in backend/src/modules/documents/formats/ builds it today.
Transmission	Submission to the BIR's EIS platform. No transport in backend/src/modules/documents/transports/ talks to it today.

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.

• Clearance model: the BIR validates and authorises each invoice before delivery.
• Software used to issue invoices must hold BIR accreditation.
• Standard VAT rate is 12 percent.
• Archive retention is 5 years.

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 the Philippines.

• country-policy/data/ph.json — which document actions the Philippines allows. Start here: without this file every action is refused with a 403, naming the country.
• country-identifiers/data/ph.json — which national identifier a party must carry.
• tax/tax-systems/data/ph.json and vat-rates/data/ph.json — the tax kind, and the rate ladder offered on an invoice line.
• correction-routes/data/ph.json — all eleven canonical correction routes, unverified where unresearched, never omitted.
• b2g-routing/data/ph.json — the channel and format a Philippine public buyer requires.
• transports/channel-policy/data/ph.json — whether a channel is legally required of a seller established in the Philippines, and from what date.
• archive/retention/data/ph.json — how long an archived document is kept, and what the duration is counted from.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 BIR's EIS platform is a transmission channel this repository does not implement, and its schema has no format provider. Both are code, not a JSON file — see When a country needs more than a file.

Want the Philippines supported?

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