ViDA (VAT in the Digital Age): How Should You Prepare?

ViDA: How to Prepare Your VAT and Electronic Invoicing Processes

VAT in the Digital Age (ViDA) is changing how VAT is managed across the European Union, particularly for companies with intra-community transactions. The initiative focuses on three main areas: digital reporting requirements based on structured electronic invoices, new responsibilities for certain digital platforms, and an expanded VAT One Stop Shop. Each measure has its own scope and timeline, as outlined in the 2026 to 2035 ViDA work program on e-Invoicing and digital reporting.

Preparing for these changes requires more than understanding the new obligations. Companies must also assess whether their existing processes can generate, validate, and transmit tax data with the required speed and level of detail. Manual tasks, disconnected ERP systems, and inconsistent formats can complicate the transition, especially when information must flow between multiple applications, legal entities, and jurisdictions.

Master data quality will also be a key consideration. Customer, product, and tax records must be consistent to prevent errors, rejections, and subsequent corrections. In this context, adapting the EN 16931 standard to ViDA requirements reinforces the importance of structured data and interoperability between electronic invoicing systems across Europe.

This video can help you determine where to start: audit invoicing processes, clean up data, and anticipate the complexity associated with formats, languages, archiving rules, and local integrations. It is particularly useful for tax, finance, and IT teams managing operations across multiple countries that need to assess whether their current architecture can accommodate new requirements without multiplying processes and connections.