What are the advantages of electronic invoices over paper invoices?

Electronic invoices compared to paper invoices, with low energy consumption, easy to save, easy to identify the authenticity of the characteristics. It has been widely used in foreign countries.

The invoice, as a kind of shopping voucher, is a powerful evidence to prove the consumption behavior, and it is also a legal voucher for consumers to obtain after-sales service and consumer rights. However, paper invoices are difficult to save, easy to lose, easy to fake, not conducive to consumer rights.

After Beijing issued the first e-invoice in the mainland, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places also carried out pilot work on e-invoice one after another. However, the electronic invoice due to the inability to issue unit head and other issues, to financial reimbursement, unit purchases and other restrictions, to a large extent, affecting the scope of the promotion of electronic invoices.

Extended information:

p>According to statistics, an online shopping business with annual sales of tens of billions of dollars spends more than 5 million dollars a year on printing and printing paper invoices. As a populous country and economic power, China's total retail sales of consumer goods in 2013 amounted to 23.78 trillion yuan, consuming a huge number of paper invoices each year, which inadvertently increased the economic and environmental costs of society.

Therefore, the establishment of a unified electronic invoice standard as soon as possible, giving electronic invoices the same legal effect as paper invoices, and promoting the full popularization of electronic invoices is undoubtedly the optimal choice for the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of consumers and the saving of social and environmental costs.

People's Daily Online--Zhang Dongbei: Electronic and paper invoices should have the same legal effect