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IRD — Sri Lanka e-invoicing

Invoicerr does not support Sri Lanka

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

Sri Lanka requires mandatory e-invoicing through the Inland Revenue Department's own e-Invoice System, with each invoice validated before it reaches the buyer.

What supporting Sri Lanka would involve​

Systeme-Invoice System, run by the IRD
AuthorityIRD — Inland Revenue Department
FormatA national XML schema. No provider in backend/src/modules/documents/formats/ builds it today.
TransmissionSubmission to the IRD e-Invoice System. 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: pre-submission validation is required before an invoice is valid.
  • A digital signature and authorised software are required to issue an invoice.

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 Sri Lanka.

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  • archive/retention/data/lk.json — how long an archived document is kept, and what the duration is counted from.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

Want Sri Lanka supported?​

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