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What a compliant invoice must show in Italy.

The fields, the party identifiers, the exact statutory wording for each tax treatment and the EUR rule — each cited to the statute or the tax authority, not a summary of one.

Tax figure in EUR Legal format FatturaPA XML (SdI) Requires a structured e-invoice

What the invoice must show

The content Italy's rules put on the face of the document, beyond the parties, line items and totals every invoice carries.

Document title
Fattura Invoice
Tax shown in
EUR
Payment terms
Due date or payment terms required

How each party is identified

The registration numbers and their formats the Italy rules expect on the invoice.

Seller
Partita IVA VAT number · IT + 11 digits · always
Seller
Codice fiscale tax code · 16 characters or 11 digits · always
Seller
REA / Registro Imprese companies register + REA number · e.g. MI-1234567 · companies
Seller
Capitale sociale share capital · e.g. € 10.000 i.v. · companies
Buyer
Partita IVA / Codice fiscale buyer VAT number or tax code · IT + 11 digits, or the codice fiscale · business buyer
Buyer
Codice destinatario / PEC SdI recipient code (7 chars) or PEC · 7 characters, 0000000 with a PEC, or XXXXXXX for a foreign buyer · both parties in the market

The exact wording, by tax treatment

When no tax is charged, the invoice has to say why — in the words the law names. Each is linked to the statute or tax authority it was read from.

Inversione contabile — art. 17, D.P.R. 633/1972Reverse charge
Intra-Community supplyverbatim · statute ↗
Operazione non imponibile — art. 41, D.L. 331/1993 (cessione intracomunitaria)Not subject to VAT — intra-Community supply
Operazione non imponibile — art. 8, D.P.R. 633/1972 (esportazione)Not subject to VAT — export
Operazione esente — art. 10, D.P.R. 633/1972VAT exempt
Operazione non soggetta — art. 7-ter, D.P.R. 633/1972Not subject to Italian VAT — place of supply abroad
Foreign seller (import)statute ↗
IVA non addebitata — operazione non soggetta in Italia (art. 7-bis, D.P.R. 633/1972); IVA all'importazione assolta dall'importatore (art. 67-70)VAT not charged — supply outside the scope of Italian VAT; import VAT is accounted for on importation by the importer (Art. 2(1)(d), 30, 70 and 201, Directive 2006/112/EC).
The client's step: Between Italian-established parties the legal invoice is the FatturaPA XML cleared by SdI — the client uploads it there; this document is the commercial copy (copia di cortesia).

Art. 21 c. 2 DPR 633/72 lett. a–n; c. 6 annotazioni 'operazione non imponibile/esente/non soggetta', 'inversione contabile', 'autofatturazione'; arrotondamento al centesimo.

The format, and who sends it

Italy requires a structured e-invoice — a plain PDF is not the legal document.

Legal format(s)
FatturaPA XML (SdI) · EN 16931 UBL (Peppol BIS 3.0) · PDF invoice
Transmission
A clearance platform or accredited channel — the seller's own step (see above)

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Invoice by Juros-AI builds the Italy e-invoice — FatturaPA XML (SdI) or EN 16931 UBL (Peppol BIS 3.0) — and checks it against the official schema on your own machine before anything is sent. Invoice by Juros-AI reads any invoice into clean data and is adding compliant invoice creation — the same rules on this page, built into the engine, run entirely on your own hardware. No cloud, nothing uploaded, no figure invented.

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Every generated invoice is validated on your machine against the official artefacts — the OASIS UBL/CII schemas, the CEN EN 16931 schematron, Peppol BIS 3.0, KoSIT XRechnung, FatturaPA, KSeF FA(3) and the Peppol PINT packages. This page is a reference for build scoping; it is not legal or tax advice.

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