VAT ID update

[polyniki]

Hi, can someone from support help me please? I would like on my invoices BG for Bulgaria to show in front of my ID and not the number only, so that the ID is proper and complete like all EU VAT IDs. Thanks.

[g_vasilevski]

Hi Polyniki,

Unfortunately at the moment, this is not possible. The invoices have a standard form for everyone, but thank you for your feedback I will share it with our team.

[polyniki]

 Hello Goran, hm, this is strange, because I had clients from 3 different EU countries so far and their VAT IDs on the invoices shows the country abbreviation in front, so why shouldn`t mine? Thanks anyway.

[g_vasilevski]

Hi Polyniki,

I double checked this and can confirm that this is by design and unfortunately at the moment we can't customize the invoices. Thank you.

[polyniki]

OK, thanks for your help. Please do drop a line with the team, the VAT ID just seems so incomplete without the country initials in front and might make a client have to research it to complete. It looks like a phone number without the country code, if you know what I mean. Thanks again.

[r_satta]

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Polyniki V wrote:

OK, thanks for your help. Please do drop a line with the team, the VAT ID just seems so incomplete without the country initials in front and might make a client have to research it to complete. It looks like a phone number without the country code, if you know what I mean. Thanks again.

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Every european freelancer has the same problem. Basically we can't make our own invoices and we can't change them.
For example, here in Italy, Upwork invoices are waste papers. In my case, I should make an invoice using:

•  double language
•  € and not only USD
• 2€ tax stamp for every invoice that goes over 77,47€
•  MY personal invoice number, and not one chosen by Upwork
• adding the lines "Operazione effettuata ai sensi dell'articolo 1, commi da 54 a 89 etc. etc. etc." (Italian bureaucracy stating I follow that particular law for this particular case)

Basically, I take the Upwork invoice and I make another one for it to be valid in my country. This has always been a problem for Upwork and it doesn't seem they want to solve it.

[tolmachova]

Hi Roberto.

I'm dealing with the invoices now since I opened the partita IVA in the end of 2018 and my tax lawyer (commercialista) said the invoices have to have an additional information on them, in particluar codice fiscale. 

Basically, I take the Upwork invoice and I make another one for it to be valid in my country. 

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I've heard that the client has to receive exactly the same invoice as you present for taxation. Do you send the "new" invoice to the client as well? Or how do you solve it? I'm very confused

Thanks,

Kateryna