E-invoicing rules for Tilers in the United Kingdom: B2B e-invoicing mandatory from April 2029

The Autumn Budget 2025 confirmed that from April 2029 all VAT invoices between VAT-registered businesses (B2B) and to public bodies (B2G) must be structured e-invoices, using the Peppol network. An implementation roadmap is due at Budget 2026. Separately, Making Tax Digital for Income Tax applies to sole traders from April 2026 (income over £50,000). Not yet. From April 2029 VAT-registered businesses will exchange structured e-invoices. The accepted format is Structured e-invoice over Peppol (details in the 2026 roadmap). Peppol network. This is the position as at 8 October 2026 — e-invoicing legislation is moving quickly across the EU, so confirm against current national guidance before relying on a date. Vasco generates Structured e-invoice over Peppol (details in the 2026 roadmap) directly from an invoice, so a Tiler does not need separate software to comply.

Structured e-invoice over Peppol (details in the 2026 roadmap). A PDF emailed to a customer is NOT a structured e-invoice — a PDF is an image of an invoice, whereas the mandate requires machine-readable data that the recipient's system can process without retyping. Peppol network. Vasco produces the structured file from the invoice you already raised, rather than asking you to rebuild it in a separate tool.

Today: Making Tax Digital for VAT (and for Income Tax from April 2026) and, in construction, CIS returns. Plan for structured e-invoicing by April 2029. Two practical points that catch out small trades businesses: being able to RECEIVE a structured invoice is often required earlier than issuing one, and 'sent' is not the same as 'accepted' — in Italy and Spain the authority can reject a filing, and a rejected invoice was never legally issued. Vasco tracks that distinction so a Tiler can see which invoices are genuinely filed and which were refused.

No. The requirement is a valid structured file in the correct format, not a particular class of software or an ERP. A self-employed Tiler can comply with a tool that produces Structured e-invoice over Peppol (details in the 2026 roadmap) correctly and keeps the audit trail. Vasco is built for one-person and small trades businesses across six European markets and generates the formats each one requires, so you are not paying for an enterprise system to satisfy a rule aimed at invoice data.