E-invoicing in JapanQualified invoice with issuer registration number, JP PINT over Peppol

Input tax credit depends on a qualified invoice carrying the issuer's registration number; JP PINT is the Peppol profile.

The facts

What issuing in Japan actually involves

FormatQualified invoice with issuer registration number, JP PINT over Peppol
Goes toNational Tax Agency; Peppol for transport, where used
RegimePost-audit — you issue, then report
Invoice numberStays ours: gap-free, sequential, yours to control
Seller tax IDTax ID
Buyer tax IDTax ID
Peppol EAS code0221
IntegrationDirect, no third-party provider needed

The part that costs a day

The catch nobody writes down

The format is optional, the registration number is not: a buyer can only claim input tax credit against an invoice from a registered qualified issuer, so a supplier who did not register quietly makes their customer worse off. The number is checked against a public register, and the transitional relief that softened this is being withdrawn in steps.

Your numbering stays yours

We issue gap-free, sequential numbers that reset on your schedule and are never reused — including for voided documents, which keep theirs. The authority takes the document as numbered.

Tax is computed from the base

Never extracted from the gross. The two formulas differ by a cent and the wrong one gets the file rejected. The leftover cent is declared as payment rounding (BT-114), where the standard puts it.

Straight talk

What we do not do in Japan.

We do not hold your signing certificate, we do not file your periodic returns, and we are not your accountant.

No third-party provider is required: we build and validate the document ourselves, and you can still connect one if your accountant prefers it.

Everywhere else

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