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Invoices the state validates before your customer sees them, a deduction that waits on something your warehouse does, and legal limits denominated in a unit that is revalued while you sleep.
Eighteen markets, and what they have in common is not a rate — it is that the state sits inside the transaction rather than downstream of it. Latin America ran mandatory clearance a decade before Europe did, so the useful question in any of these markets is not whether invoicing is electronic but which end of the document the obligation attaches to. Our two researched markets answer that in opposite directions, which is why they are worth reading as a pair. In Mexico a receipt must go to the authority before it is issued — validated, given its folio and sealed — and only then may it reach the customer, so a document that has not been cleared is not a late invoice, it is not an invoice. In Colombia the invoice arrives already valid and the obligation is yours: on credit terms the BUYER must confirm, by two separate electronic messages, that the invoice arrived and that the goods did, and until both are sent the purchase supports no deduction and no input credit. One country makes the seller unable to issue; the other makes the buyer unable to claim. A third pattern cuts across both and has nothing to do with invoicing at all — statutory limits here are frequently expressed as multiples of an index unit rather than as sums of money, revalued annually in Colombia and daily in Chile, so a figure stored as currency is correct the day it is entered and goes stale without any event occurring. Take those three questions to Brazil, Chile or Argentina, where the clearance regimes are the same species, and they are still the right questions.
Clearance is not one requirement. In some markets the seller cannot issue without the state; in others the buyer cannot claim without acting. A vendor who says "we support e-invoicing" has answered only the first kind, and if your exposure is the second kind they have not answered anything at all. Establish whether the thing you owe happens before the document leaves, or after it arrives.
Where a deduction depends on acknowledging that goods were received, the compliance event occurs at a loading bay rather than at a desk. Ask any system where receiving produces something that leaves the building. If the answer is a separate portal, that portal is the compliance system and what you are being shown is a record kept beside it — which can be a fine arrangement, provided you chose it rather than discovered it.
Statutory ceilings expressed in an index unit go out of date on a schedule rather than on an event. Nothing is edited, nothing fails, and the stored figure quietly stops agreeing with the law. An annual revaluation can be survived with a diary reminder; a daily one cannot. Ask what reads the unit, and what happens in January if nobody does.
Tax is two of these ten. AWRA OpsHub runs inventory, procurement, assets, sales, point of sale, HR and payroll, finance, projects, helpdesk and reporting as one system, and all ten work in every market — the presets below only decide what a rate field is pre-filled with. 4 of the ten have a guide written for Latin America; the rest point at the method guides, which hold wherever you run them.
No Latin America guide yet — read the method.
No Latin America guide yet — read the method.
No Latin America guide yet — read the method.
No Latin America guide yet — read the method.
No Latin America guide yet — read the method.
No Latin America guide yet — read the method.
These are the sales-tax presets AWRA OpsHub ships with, 18 of the 188 countries covered in total. They are headline national rates and a starting point for configuration — reduced, zero-rated and exempt categories still need setting up against your own chart of accounts, and rates change with each finance act.
| Market | Currency | Tax | Standard rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | MXN Mexican Peso | VAT | 16% |
| Colombia | COP Colombian Peso | VAT | 19% |
| Chile | CLP Chilean Peso | VAT | 19% |
| Brazil | BRL Brazilian Real | ICMS | 17% |
| Argentina | ARS Argentine Peso | VAT | 21% |
| Peru | PEN Peruvian Sol | VAT | 18% |
| Ecuador | USD United States Dollar | VAT | 15% |
| Uruguay | UYU Uruguayan Peso | VAT | 22% |
| Bolivia | BOB Bolivian Boliviano | VAT | 13% |
| Paraguay | PYG Paraguayan Guaraní | VAT | 10% |
| Venezuela | VES Venezuelan Bolívar | VAT | 16% |
| Suriname | SRD Surinamese Dollar | VAT | 10% |
| Costa Rica | CRC Costa Rican Colón | VAT | 13% |
| Guatemala | GTQ Guatemalan Quetzal | VAT | 12% |
| Honduras | HNL Honduran Lempira | VAT | 15% |
| Nicaragua | NIO Nicaraguan Córdoba | VAT | 15% |
| Panama | PAB Panamanian Balboa | VAT | 7% |
| El Salvador | USD United States Dollar | VAT | 13% |
Grouped into 4 topics, newest first within each.
Your customer master holds what you need to know about a customer. It has nowhere to hold what your customer asserts about themselves — and some documents will not clear without it.
Colombia caps a till receipt at five UVT and Chile publishes a new unit value every single day. Both are legal limits denominated in something other than currency, so a system that stores them as an amount is not wrong yet — it is correct with an expiry date nobody wrote down, and it goes stale without any event occurring at all.
Almost every compliance obligation belongs to finance and is performed at a desk. This one belongs to the buyer and is discharged on a loading bay — by somebody who has never been told they are part of a control.
Colombian law makes the buyer confirm two things by electronic message before a credit purchase supports any deduction: that the invoice arrived, and that the goods did. The second is a statement about the world that only a receiving process can make — which turns the most improvised record in procurement into the one the money waits on.
Each of these sets out what is built today and what is still on the roadmap for that market.
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