Transition to automatic VAT filing, a history of July 1, 2022

Key points
  • As of July 1, 2022, sales and purchase books and the VAT return transitioned from manual completion to e-Filing and then to automatic completion based on data from the fiscalization system.
  • This was the moment of transition, not the definitive way of operating, since the process has been further perfected since then.
  • For how autocomplete works today and for book deadlines, see our complete guides below.
Updated October 18, 2026. Published March 23, 2022. The original notice was the General Directorate of Taxation's announcement about the transition that would take place on July 1, 2022. The content has been rewritten to treat it as the historic moment of the transition, with links to our current guides.

As of July 1, 2022, sales/purchase books and the VAT return transitioned from manual completion to e-Filing, with automatic completion based on data from the fiscalization system. Until that date, the General Directorate of Taxation required that the submission of the VAT return and the books continue to be done manually through e-filing accounts.

From our daily work, we see that some businesses still associate fiscalization only with the electronic invoice, without realizing that the same system has also been providing the pre-fill for the VAT return and the sales/purchase books since mid-2022.

Read also: VAT Declaration Submission through Fiscalization, and Sales and purchase books. The 11th date and the most common errors., how it works today and what needs to be checked every month.

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About the author

Andi Haxhillari is an economist and the founder of AlProfit Consult, an accounting, tax advisory, and financial management firm in Tirana, established in 2015. He holds the professional title of Certified Accountant, certificate no. 359, issued by the Certification Authority of the Ministry of Finance on July 4, 2012. He graduated with a Master's degree in Accounting and as a General Economist from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tirana. For more than ten years, he has worked as an external economist for small and medium-sized businesses in Albania.

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