Hungary makes eVAT mandatory from 2027 and launches the eAFA preparation tool
Hungary's tax administration confirmed that the eVAT (eAFA) regime becomes mandatory from 2027 and released the eAFA tool for VAT return preparation. Hungary already operates one of Europe's most mature real-time invoice reporting systems through RTIR / Online Szamla, and eVAT layers machine-readable VAT return preparation on top of that data. For businesses running Hungarian entities, the practical work is not new invoice plumbing but reconciliation: ledger-level tax codes must line up with what RTIR already holds, because the draft return is assembled from reported invoice data. Groups that treat RTIR as a fire-and-forget feed will find eVAT surfaces every mapping inconsistency.