Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Japan run on the actual Peppol network. Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines each run their own separate government clearance or reporting system — Peppol is, at most, one optional channel into one of them. Here's what's actually true in each market, and what it means for your AP and AR teams.
Valtatech supports clients across six of these seven markets today — Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia and the Philippines, where support covers BIR EIS/ESRS directly, outside the Peppol network. Indonesia is scoped per engagement.
Trading beyond APAC too? eInvoicePost, Valtatech's self-serve Peppol product, reaches 17 European markets as well. Its free tier covers Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand to start with.
Click a country to expand it. Each one covers what the system actually is, what's changing, how the process works, what your team needs to do, and where Valtatech fits.
Australia and New Zealand share a genuine Peppol implementation, using the joint PINT A-NZ format. Invoices move as structured data through the real four-corner Peppol network — not as PDFs or emails — between accredited Access Points. The ATO is Australia's Peppol Authority.
B2B adoption remains voluntary — the proposed Business eInvoicing Right framework was not enacted. Government procurement is where the pressure sits. Non-corporate Commonwealth entities have had to be able to receive Peppol eInvoices since 1 July 2022; from 1 July 2026 at least 30% of their supplier invoices must arrive as eInvoices, and by December 2026 agencies must be able to process and send them automatically. Under the Commonwealth's Pay On Time policy, valid eInvoices are paid within five calendar days rather than the standard 30 — but that applies where eInvoicing is the agreed method and both parties have Peppol capability, not to every invoice on the network. In New Zealand, agencies must have eInvoicing capability from 1 January 2026 and must require large suppliers to use Peppol from 1 January 2027. Full ANZ guide →
A business registers a Peppol ID through an accredited Access Point, connects its ERP or accounting system, and invoices route automatically to the recipient's own Access Point — no bespoke integration per trading partner.
Valtatech is a certified Peppol Access Point and accredited eInvoicing service provider for both Australia and New Zealand, and sits on the ATO's Peppol Capabilities and Associated Services Panel supporting government agencies onto the network.
Singapore's InvoiceNow network is genuinely Peppol-based, governed by IMDA. Singapore was the first country outside Europe to operate its own Peppol Authority. It runs a 5-corner model that adds Continuous Transaction Controls (CTC) — a reporting leg to the tax authority — on top of the standard Peppol exchange.
A phased GST-linked mandate is rolling out: voluntary GST registrants from November 2025, extending through company-size and revenue tiers, reaching all GST-registered businesses by 2031. The threshold you fall into depends on incorporation date and taxable turnover.
Same Peppol exchange model as Australia/NZ, with invoice data additionally reported to IRAS as part of GST administration.
Valtatech delivered a Peppol/InvoiceNow eInvoicing implementation for Starke Singapore, integrating directly with their existing ERP.
Japan joined the Peppol network with its own localized specification, JP PINT, tied to Japan's Qualified Invoice System (the consumption-tax invoice reform). This is genuine Peppol infrastructure, not a lookalike.
Unlike Malaysia, Indonesia or the Philippines, Japan has no blanket mandate forcing businesses onto Peppol. JP PINT — maintained by the Digital Agency as Japan's Peppol Authority — is voluntary and encouraged, sitting alongside the Qualified Invoice System rather than replacing it. The deadline that bites is a tax one, not a technology one. Issuing qualified invoices is mandatory for a buyer to claim input tax credit, and the transitional relief on purchases from tax-exempt suppliers is being phased out. The 2026 tax reform extended that phase-out by two years and stepped it: 80% falls to 70% from October 2026, then 50% from October 2028 and 30% from October 2030, ending 30 September 2031. That makes a supplier's qualification status a commercial question with dates on it, whatever a business decides about Peppol. What the October step-down costs →
JP PINT invoices move through the standard Peppol network, formatted to carry the invoice registration number and tax-rate breakdowns the Qualified Invoice System requires.
Valtatech supports clients on JP PINT compliance in Japan, connecting invoicing systems to the Peppol network in the format Japan's Qualified Invoice System requires.
Malaysia's mandatory system is MyInvois, run by LHDN (the Inland Revenue Board), a real-time clearance model — invoices are validated by LHDN before they're legally recognised, not just reported afterward. Peppol is a recognised optional channel alongside this, with MDEC acting as Malaysia's Peppol Authority and a localized format (PINT-MY) for businesses that choose that route. Peppol is not the mandate itself.
Rollout has been phased by annual turnover since August 2024 (starting with businesses above RM100 million), progressively including smaller businesses through 2026. The exemption threshold was raised to RM3 million with effect from 1 September 2026, up from RM1 million, and a planned fifth phase for the smallest businesses was cancelled in December 2025. For the final group — turnover up to RM5 million, with a mandatory date of 1 January or 1 July 2026 — the interim relaxation period runs to 31 December 2027, so full enforcement follows from 1 January 2028. Non-compliance penalties under the Income Tax Act range from RM200 to RM20,000 per invoice once enforcement is live. Full Malaysia guide →
Invoices are submitted either directly to the MyInvois portal, via Host-to-Host ERP integration, or through an MDEC-accredited Peppol Access Point using PINT-MY — three valid channels into the same LHDN clearance requirement.
Valtatech has delivered e-invoicing implementation work connecting a client into Malaysia's tax authority (IRBM/LHDN) system, and supports clients on both the direct MyInvois integration path and the MDEC-accredited Peppol/PINT-MY channel.
Indonesia is not a Peppol jurisdiction at all. Its system, Coretax (run by the Directorate General of Taxes, DJP), replaced the older e-Faktur platform and uses DJP's own proprietary XML format — not UBL, not Peppol. It's a clearance model: an invoice that hasn't been validated by Coretax in real time isn't legally recognised for VAT purposes at all, and the buyer can't claim input VAT on it.
Coretax reached full enforcement for essentially all VAT-registered taxpayers (PKP) on 31 December 2025, and is becoming the primary platform for VAT operations and annual tax returns from 2026 onward. This is a live, fully-enforced mandate now, not an upcoming one. It is a clearance model: DJP approval is a legal precondition for a valid tax invoice, and an invoice uploaded after the 20th of the following month is not valid for VAT credit — a deadline that catches month-end processing more often than the mandate itself.
Most businesses use the Coretax web portal directly. High-volume taxpayers can continue using Host-to-Host (H2H) API integration or e-Faktur desktop tools, but these now feed into Coretax's real-time validation rather than operating independently.
Valtatech supports clients with Indonesian operations today — see the application managed services engagement for a pharmaceutical manufacturer. On clearance specifically: Coretax is a national system, not a Peppol one, so Peppol Access Point accreditation does not carry over to it. Indonesian clearance is scoped as a direct integration rather than something an existing Peppol connection covers. If Coretax is on your roadmap, talk to us about scope before you plan around it.
The Philippines also runs its own system, not Peppol: the BIR's Electronic Invoicing System (EIS) paired with the Electronic Sales Reporting System (ESRS), using a proprietary JSON format. EIS handles issuing structured, cryptographically signed invoices; ESRS handles near-real-time reporting of that sales data to the BIR.
The first mandatory phase — covering large taxpayers, e-commerce operators, and businesses using Computerized Accounting/Bookkeeping Systems — was extended and now takes effect 31 December 2026 (Revenue Regulations No. 26-2025). No single date has been published for every remaining taxpayer. Expansion to exporters, registered business enterprises and POS users depends on BIR system readiness and further regulations, so treat any later date you are quoted as indicative until a regulation names it.
A taxpayer's invoicing/accounting software must pass BIR certification (JSON generation, cryptographic signing, stable API connectivity), after which the business obtains a "Permit to Transmit" to begin production transmission. Note: the BIR has explicitly clarified that software or system providers are not themselves accredited as "EIS providers" — only the mandated taxpayer applies for certification, typically with a technology partner building the middleware behind it.
Valtatech supports clients on Philippines BIR EIS/ESRS compliance — worth being precise here: EIS isn't a Peppol variant (it's a separate proprietary JSON system with no Peppol connection at all), so this is a distinct capability from Valtatech's Peppol Access Point accreditation, not an extension of it. Valtatech helps clients determine their mandated phase, get invoicing systems through BIR certification, and secure the Permit to Transmit.
Three markets where the detail changes what you have to build. Each guide carries the dates, thresholds and formats, and says when it was last reviewed.
The phases by turnover, the RM3 million exemption raised in September 2026, the RM10,000 rule the relaxation period does not cover, and what happens if you cross the threshold later.
Why InvoiceNow and GST InvoiceNow are two different things, who is in scope from April 2026, and what PINT-SG requires that generic Peppol does not.
No tax clearance step and no B2B mandate. What is actually required, of whom, and why PINT A-NZ is now the only supported format.
If you trade across more than one of these markets, the compliance model — not just the deadline — changes country to country. We'll map what actually applies to your footprint.
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