SRI Gets New Digital Tax-Control and Fiscal-Marking System

Ecuador is adding new digital tools to its tax-control system.

President Daniel Noboa signed Executive Decree No. 398 on June 3, reforming the regulation for applying the Internal Tax Regime Law.

The reform updates mechanisms for identification, marking, authentication and fiscal traceability.

What Changes

The decree allows the government to apply technological systems meant to prevent illicit activity, reduce tax evasion and strengthen compliance.

Taxpayers selected by the SRI, Ecuador's tax authority, will be required to apply control systems for certain goods and services.

The system will connect control components to an integrated platform that records information about:

• Production
• Nationalization/import entry
• Commercialization of products

The SRI keeps exclusive responsibility for implementing and controlling the fiscal-marking system. Other competent agencies may propose which new goods or services should be added.

What This Means for Expats

For most individual foreign residents, this is not an immediate paperwork change.

For business owners, importers, product distributors and people operating in regulated sectors, it is worth watching closely. Digital traceability rules usually start with selected goods or sectors, then expand as the tax authority builds enforcement capacity.