Simplified Billing, the Second Self-Care Update of 2021

Key points
  • In November 2021, DPT added the option for cashless payment, Albania as the default country, and the automatic opening of the cash balance to the simplified Self-Care invoice.
  • This was a continuation of the previous month's update, which had added the registration of the list of items for the same category of taxpayers.
  • These developments were directed only at taxpayers using the simplified procedure under Decree No. 220/2020, and the current Self-Care interface must be verified directly today.
Updated October 18, 2026. Published November 15, 2021. The original notice described a specific update to the Self-Care interface at the time. The content has been rewritten to preserve the context for why the streamlined procedure exists, while the interface details should be verified on the portal today.

One month after the first update to the simplified invoice, the General Directorate of Taxes announced in November 2021 a second set of improvements to the Self-Care portal, for the same category of taxpayers under Government Decree No. 220, dated March 12, 2020: Albania as the default state, the ability to issue the simplified invoice even without cash on hand, the cashless payment method with translations, and automatic opening of the cash register balance.

From our daily work, we see that these successive Self-Care updates often confuse small taxpayers, since each notice addresses only one part of the changes and it's not always clear what the portal's full current functionality is.

Read also: Simplified billing in Self-Care: procedure and intended audience, the previous update of the same procedure, one month ago.

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Why does it matter today?

If you are part of the simplified taxation procedure and issue invoices from Self-Care, check the current features, payment methods, and cash balance directly on the portal, as the interface has continued to evolve since 2021. For specific issues, the Fiscalization Help Desk remains the first point of contact.

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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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