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What a compliant invoice must show in Singapore.

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

Tax figure in SGD Legal format EN 16931 UBL (Peppol BIS 3.0) PDF counts as the invoice

What the invoice must show

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

Document title
The words “TAX INVOICE” must appear (a seller registered for the tax)
Tax shown in
SGDan IRAS-approved exchange rate — total excl. GST, GST and total incl. GST also in S$

How each party is identified

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

Seller
GST registration no. GST number · UEN (e.g. 200012345A) or M2-1234567-8 · when registered for the tax
Seller
UEN unique entity number · UEN · always
Buyer
Buyer UEN

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.

Reverse chargestatute ↗
Reverse charge — customer to account for GST (s. 14, GST Act 1993)
Zero-rated — export of goods (s. 21(6), GST Act 1993)
Zero-ratedstatute ↗
Zero-rated supply (s. 21, GST Act 1993)
Exempt supply (Fourth Schedule, GST Act 1993)
Out of scopestatute ↗
Out-of-scope supply — goods delivered outside Singapore
Foreign seller (import)statute ↗
GST not charged by the supplier — import GST is paid by the importer to Singapore Customs (s. 8(4), GST Act 1993)

IRAS: the words 'Tax Invoice', supplier name/address/GST reg no., customer name/address, identifying number, date, description, quantity/unit price/amount, total excl. GST, rate and GST, total incl. GST, S$ figures when in a foreign currency; simplified ≤ S$1,000; a non-registered seller must not issue a 'tax invoice'.

The format, and who sends it

A plain PDF still counts as the invoice in Singapore; a structured e-invoice is accepted where the buyer asks for it.

Legal format(s)
EN 16931 UBL (Peppol BIS 3.0) · PDF invoice · (roadmap: Peppol PINT (national profile))
Transmission
Sent supplier→buyer; no government clearance in the path

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Invoice by Juros-AI builds the Singapore e-invoice — 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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