Peppol, explained

Egypt

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The Egyptian Tax Authority runs a national clearance platform in which business invoices are submitted as signed electronic documents (e-invoice) and sales to final consumers are reported as electronic receipts (e-receipt), each phased in by decree.

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Invoicing and electronic documents

Egyptian eInvoicing & eReceipt solution

The Tax Authority's platform on which taxpayers register the invoices and receipts they issue and receive notifications about them. ERP and POS systems integrate through its APIs; taxpayers without an ERP system can use the e-invoicing portal. It is a national system, not a Peppol network.

XML or JSON documents with a digital signature, submitted through REST APIs · Official source

E-invoice system (منظومة الفاتورة الإلكترونية)

Clearance of business invoices. Obligated companies need an electronic seal certificate, must code their goods and services with GS1 or EGS codes, and either integrate their invoicing system or use the portal.

Signed electronic tax invoice; GS1 or EGS item codes · Official source

E-receipt system (منظومة الإيصال الإلكتروني)

Real-time reporting of sales to final consumers from registered point-of-sale devices.

Electronic tax receipt issued from an ETA-registered POS · Official source

Peppol

No national Peppol Authority is listed for Egypt, so OpenPeppol acts as the authority. The Tax Authority's platform does not use Peppol.

No national Peppol specification found · Official source

Egypt uses its own clearance platform, not Peppol. An invoice counts only once it has been signed with the issuer's electronic seal and registered on the Tax Authority's system, through an ERP integration or the portal. A Peppol connection can carry documents between trading partners, but it does not replace submission to the Egyptian eInvoicing & eReceipt solution.

Check two things before issuing: whether the taxpayer is named in an e-invoice decision (since the final sub-phase in December 2022 this covers registered taxpayers generally), and whether its consumer sales fall under an e-receipt wave. The e-receipt waves are still being published one by one; see the list of e-receipt decisions.

Timeline

  1. First e-invoice phase

    Companies named in the list attached to Decision 386 of 2020, all registered at the Large Taxpayers Center, must issue electronic tax invoices.

    Official source

  2. Large Taxpayers Center joins e-invoicing

    Third phase under Decision 85 of 2021; all companies registered at the Large Taxpayers Center must issue electronic tax invoices.

    Official source

  3. Cairo, Giza and Qalyubia

    Companies registered in these areas and named on the published list must issue electronic tax invoices (Decision 208 of 2022).

    Official source

  4. First e-receipt stage

    153 named companies must issue electronic tax receipts for sales to final consumers (Decision 289 of 2022).

    Official source

  5. Second e-receipt phase

    Under Decree 230 of 2022, 400 taxpayers in Greater Cairo and Alexandria were scheduled to start issuing e-receipts.

    Official source

  6. E-invoicing covers all remaining taxpayers

    The last sub-phase of Decision 323 of 2022 brings in the remaining governorates and all registered taxpayers not covered by earlier decisions.

    Official source

  7. E-receipt phase 9, sub-phase 1

    Taxpayers named in the list attached to Decision 361 of 2025 must issue electronic tax receipts.

    Official source

Peppol in Egypt

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