新西兰电子发票普及率翻倍 政府：企业每年有望节省8亿纽元成本
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新西兰政府正加快推动电子发票（eInvoicing）普及，希望通过数字化改革提高企业生产力、改善现金流，并降低行政成本。小企业与制造业部长Cameron Brewer表示，随着电子发票全面推广，新西兰企业每年预计可创造高达8亿纽元的生产力收益。
最新数据显示，目前全国已有约11.3万家企业注册接收电子发票，较今年初约5.2万家增长超过一倍，采用速度持续加快。
电子发票系统可让企业之间通过会计软件直接发送和接收发票，无需打印、发送电子邮件或人工输入数据，不仅大幅减少行政工作，也能降低人为错误及发票诈骗风险。
Brewer表示，对于中小企业而言，现金流至关重要，而付款延迟往往是企业经营的一大压力。电子发票可帮助企业更快收到款项，减少文书处理时间，同时提升交易安全性。
根据新西兰经济研究所（NZIER）最新研究，企业改用电子发票后，每张发票平均可节省约16分钟处理时间，相当于每张发票节省约11纽元成本。随着企业广泛采用，整体经济效益预计可达每年8亿纽元。
目前，许多使用云端会计软件的企业实际上已经具备电子发票功能，只需启用即可使用，无需额外购买复杂系统。
政府也率先推动自身付款流程改革。目前政府部门的目标是在10个工作日内支付95%的供应商发票。根据最新统计，上季度政府已达到95.9%的准时付款率，共处理超过160万张发票。
Brewer指出，政府按时付款不仅能改善供应商现金流，也让资金更快流向中小企业及分包商，进一步促进地方经济发展。
为了进一步扩大电子发票应用，自2027年1月1日起，大型企业向政府部门开具发票时，将必须采用电子发票格式。同时，政府也要求大型承包商给予分包商不低于自身所享有的付款条件，以保障中小企业权益。
政策解读
电子发票改革是国家党政府推动数字经济和提升生产力的重要措施之一。政府希望通过减少行政成本、缩短付款周期和推动企业数字化，改善新西兰长期存在的生产力增长缓慢问题。
对于广大中小企业而言，电子发票不仅意味着更快收到货款，也能减少人工录入、对账和发票管理等行政工作，提高经营效率。随着2027年政府采购全面推广电子发票，新西兰商业交易数字化程度预计将进一步提升，为企业带来更高效率和更低运营成本。
Kiwi businesses are on track for up to $800 million a year in productivity gains once eInvoicing is fully adopted, with uptake already more than doubling in the past year as businesses get paid faster and spend less time on paperwork, Small Business and Manufacturing Minister Cameron Brewer says.
Around 113,000 businesses are now registered to receive eInvoices, up from 52,000 earlier this year. eInvoicing lets businesses send and receive invoices directly between their accounting systems, with no printing, emailing, or manually keying in numbers.
“For small businesses, cash is king. Late payments choke cashflow, and that’s exactly what this fixes. eInvoicing helps you get paid faster, cuts the admin, and reduces invoice fraud and scams,” Mr Brewer says.
The $800 million figure comes from new research by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER), which finds businesses can save at least 16 minutes on every invoice, or around $11 each, just by making the switch.
“It’s one of the simplest, proven productivity wins going. If you’ve got cloud accounting, you’ve already got eInvoicing sitting there ready to switch on,” Mr Brewer says.
“Our Government is leading the charge with its own prompt payments, which we initiated and continue to closely monitor. The results speak for themselves and mean more cash into our local communities, faster,” Mr Brewer says.
Government agencies are set a target of paying 95 percent of invoices within 10 working days, and last quarter they beat it, paying 95.9 percent on time across more than 1.6 million invoices.
“We’re not just asking businesses to make the switch, we’re doing it ourselves. When government pays on time, that money flows straight through to the small businesses and subcontractors down the chain,” Mr Brewer says.
To lock in that lead, from 1 January 2027 large businesses will be required to send eInvoices when billing government agencies, with subcontractors paid on terms no less favourable than large firms receive.
“This is about making it easier to do business in New Zealand. It’s fixing the basics and building the future, so Kiwi businesses have the incentives and the tools to get paid faster and lift productivity,” Mr Brewer says.
