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Prerequisites Poland

The following describes the necessary steps that must initially be carried out by the customer. We ask the customer to prepare all points before the project kick-off and to have them ready for the appointment. We recommend consulting tax advisors and ERP experts, particularly for questions relating to tax law, official registrations and the creation of invoices in-house, in order to ensure that the preparations can be implemented in a timely manner.

Owner and responsibilities

Owner

Responsibility

Retarus

  • Data Transport:

    • Setting up technical infrastructure

    • Data transfer ERP - Retarus

    • Map creation

    • Data validation

    • Transfer from/to authorities (sender/recipient)

    • Error handling

    • Status / Archive data transfer

ERP Expert

  • ERP integration:

    • Setup of ERP inhouse format

    • Transfer of data from/to Retarus

    • Documentation of ERP inhouse format

    • Integration of any necessary new fields (e.g., Peppol ID, NIP, etc.)

    • Integration of status feedback into ERP / own archive system

    • Connection to own archive (*not required if you use Retarus LTA service)

Tax Advisor / Representive

  • Local Company / Tax Administration and legal protection:

    • Checking whether internal invoices meet the necessary standards (mandatory fields, etc.), whether the process has been followed correctly (archiving, etc.)

    • Registration with portals, procurement of certificates (legitimation service provider)

    • Legal monitoring (legal changes with an impact on the current invoice)

Specific preparations Poland (KSeF):

Task

Description

Support

KSeF registration

Register yourself/your company with KSeF. All necessary information is available online at (e.g. with the support of a tax advisor):

https://ksef.podatki.gov.pl/

https://www.podatki.gov.pl/e-urzad-skarbowy/

https://www.podatki.gov.pl/e-wizyta-w-urzedzie-skarbowym/

Tax Advisor

NIP

If you do not already have one, apply for a NIP (Numer Identyfikacji Podatkowej) from the relevant tax authorities.

Note: Retarus requires this number to use the API and you need it to request the certificate.

Further information is available here:

https://www.podatki.gov.pl/abc-podatkow/rejestracja-podatnikow

Note: The recipients NIP must be part of the ERPs inhouse format, so it’s important to request the NIP from all your business partners.

Tax Advisor

API certificate

To transfer the data, Retarus requires a certificate, which is needed to authenticate the API. Please apply for this as soon as possible (e.g. with the support of a tax advisor). Further information is available here:

https://ksefapi.pl/en/czym-jest-certyfikat-ksef-i-do-czego-sluzy/

https://ksef.podatki.gov.pl/pytania-i-odpowiedzi-ksef-20

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE0IHuPHtRE

The original and a translated (German) manual are available for download here:PDF

podrecznik-uzytkownika-modulu-certyfikatow-i-uprawnien-mcu.pdf

podrecznik-uzytkownika-modulu-certyfikatow-i-uprawnien-mcu de.pdf

Note: Retarus exclusively utilises the "online" mode. Please request Type 1 certificate (“Uwierzytelnienie w systemie
KSeF”)

Tax Advisor

Special processes

Please discuss special processes such as incoming and outgoing foreign invoices, as well as the necessary archiving of invoice and UPO data, with your tax advisor.

https://ksef.podatki.gov.pl/media/yupifwwq/ksef-upo.pdf

Tax Advisor

General information

Please read the general information for KSeF carefully:

https://ksef.podatki.gov.pl/informacje-ogolne-ksef-20

FA(3) format description:

Information_sheet_on_the_FA_(3)_logical_structure_version_1.pdf

Internal

General preparatory steps:

The following tasks are only necessary if no e-invoice interface has yet been set up between Retarus and the customer's ERP system.

Task

Description

Support

ERP Inhouse format

Prepare your ERP system so that it can generate structured data (e.g. with the support of an ERP expert).

ERP Expert

Create your ERP invoice format (inhouse format) so that it contains all the necessary mandatory fields (e.g. with the support of a tax advisor).

ERP Expert / Tax Advisor

Create sample invoices with all possible variants (invoice, credit note, etc.) and in maximum detail (all fields that occur or must be transmitted) (e.g. with the support of the specialist department).

ERP Expert / Finance

Create format documentation. It is important that a Retarus Implementation Engineer can clearly understand what content is contained in a field. (The format chosen is secondary). The fewer questions that arise during setup, the faster the integration process can take place.

ERP Expert

(Personal) archive

Prepare a process that can retrieve the source and target documents from a Retarus SFTP server, process them, and then delete the data from the SFTP. Optionally, it is possible to agree on a different archiving process. Detailed documentation is required in order to evaluate the integration costs involved.

Note: Useful link regarding archiving requirements:

https://www.roedl.com/insights/e-invoicing/poland-eu

ERP Expert / Tax Advisor

Error handling

Set up an email address for:

  • General error handling

  • validation error

ERP Expert

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