The first electronic invoice in mainland China's electronic commerce was formally born

Buy food, buy fruit, buy clothes ... Nowadays, online shopping has already penetrated into every aspect of life. But online shopping consumers also have distress, shop does not provide or unwilling to provide invoices, consumer protection when it is difficult to find effective credentials ... However, these may be about to change.

Yesterday evening, with the city in Jingdong Mall to start electronic invoice pilot, mainland China E-commerce field of the first electronic invoice was formally born. In the future, the city's individual consumers in Jingdong Mall to buy books, audio-visual products, in addition to the choice of the traditional paper invoices, can also choose electronic invoices.

Yesterday, the scene of the reporter witnessed the mainland e-commerce in the field of the first electronic invoice the whole process of birth. As with the previous online shopping, consumers in Jingdong Mall picked up a good product, submit order, input consignee related information, the only difference is in the invoice in a column of the new "E-invoice" option, such as consumers check this option, in the net after the end of the "access to Invoices" interface, in this interface, consumers only need to choose Either "Download e-Invoice" or "Send e-Invoice", you can download the PDF version of the electronic invoice directly or send it to the specified email address.

Although it is a virtual invoice, but click on the open "e-Invoice" in the appearance of the actual existence of the IRS invoice and not much different, the invoice authority, the invoice code, the invoice number, the invoicing date, the amount, the commodity name and so on are all readily available, in addition to the two-dimensional code position and the size adjustment, the electronic invoice is more like a picture of the ordinary invoice.

"Electronic invoices are more user-friendly and more conducive to consumer retention." "Jingdong Mall related responsible person introduction. In addition, the use of electronic invoices, the business system and the city's national tax electronic Invoice management and query system real-time connection, not only the tax department can be monitored for each online sales, consumers can also login to the IRS website, check the authenticity of the downloaded electronic invoices.

According to the introduction, the Jingdong Mall pilot electronic invoice scope of only two categories of books and audio-visual products, only for the city has no claim of individual consumers, enterprise consumption can not be issued electronic invoices.

Li Weili, director of the Beijing Taxation Administration and Technology Development Division, said compared with the traditional invoice, the electronic invoice has no paper, low energy consumption, easy to query, easy to save and conducive to standardize the management of fees and charges, in the national Tax department after the application of the number of sections, by the computer system automatically generated, neither tax control machine, also do not have to keep watch, Plus no invoice printing costs, the use of electronic invoices can greatly reduce the burden on enterprises.

Jingdong Mall Group, vice president of Taxation Cai Lei, with the future use of electronic invoices to expand the scope of the year will save tens of millions of dollars of expenditure.

"In the future, we will try more on the use of electronic invoices." "Li Weili said that the invoice itself has the authenticity, legality, uniqueness three main characteristics, at present through the technical means and the related legislation work, the electronic invoice has no problem in the authenticity, the legality, but because the electronic invoice is unable to control in the printing, the copy, its uniqueness also has the flaw, Therefore, it is not yet applicable to enterprise users who have reimbursement requirements and need to register.

But he said that electronic invoices can be well adapted to the development of E-commerce needs, but also in line with the concept of Low-carbon environmental protection, the future use of electronic invoices will continue to expand the scope. He said that this year, the first phase of the city's electronic invoice pilot ended, will also carry out the second phase, the third phase of the pilot, the pilot enterprise scope will continue to expand.