Inter-alia the main changes we mention:

• The documents for justifying the tax exemption will be available within a maximum of 150 calendar days from the date on which the tax-generating fact occurred for the operation in question.

• Exemption for deliveries of goods shipped or transported outside the EU by the supplier or another person on his account is justified by the exporter with the following documents:
– the invoice;
– one of the following documents: certification of the conclusion of the export operation by the customs office of export, copy no. 3 of the single administrative document, the export report submitted to the consignor certifying that the excisable products have left the EU territory.

• If the supplier is not established / is in the European Union and cannot have / does not have the quality of exporter from a customs point of view, in order to justify the VAT exemption it is necessary for him to hold the export customs declaration with the invoice details filled in box 44.

• The exporter can prove the actual exit of the goods from the territory of the European Union by any means of proof, as the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled in Case C-275/18 “Milan Vins” “.

• The tax exemption for intra-Community supplies of goods to a taxable person or to a non-taxable legal person is justified on the basis of the following documents:
a) the invoice in which the registration code for VAT purposes assigned to the buyer in another Member State must be mentioned;
b) documents certifying that the goods have been transported from Romania to another Member State, which may be different from the Member State which assigned the registration code for VAT purposes communicated by the buyer.

• In the case of intra-community supplies of goods previously provided, if the tax inspection finds that the invoice is erroneously written on the VAT code of the beneficiary, for granting the VAT exemption will be allowed during the control the correction of the invoice by the supplier.

• The tax authorities may reject the justification of the transport, if they have sufficient elements to prove that the goods have not been transported from Romania to another Member State.

• In the case of intra-community deliveries assimilated by goods, respectively the transfers of goods, the tax exemption is justified on the basis of the following documents:
a) the self-invoice provided in art. 319 para. (9) of the Fiscal Code in which to be mentioned the registration code for VAT purposes assigned in another member state of the person making the transfer from Romania;
b) documents for the transport of goods from Romania to another member state, such as a signed CMR document or a signed consignment note, a bill of lading, the specific air waybill document (Air Waybill).

• The VAT exemption for intra-community supplies of goods to a taxable person or to a non-taxable legal person does not apply if the supplier has not complied with the obligation to submit a recapitulative statement or recapitulative statement submitted by the 25th of the following month it does not contain the correct information regarding this delivery, unless the supplier can duly justify the deficiency in a manner considered satisfactory by the competent tax authorities.