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Ireland  ·  read from the statute, not from a summary of it

Which currency, and which exchange rate, an Irish invoice has to use.

The document may be in any currency. The VAT amount may not: Irish regulations require it in euro, and the Directive sets the rate.

The short answer

Ireland (IE). National currency: euro. Each answer cites the provision it comes from.

Currency of the document Any currency art. 230 of Directive 2006/112/EC; Ireland states only the tax half
Currency of the VAT amount Euro reg. 20(8) of S.I. No. 639/2010
Which rate Any rate Irish rules allow; the ECB rate must be accepted art. 91(2) of the Directive
Which day's rate The latest rate when the tax becomes chargeable art. 91(2) of the Directive

The provision

Ireland writes down the tax half of the rule, in a regulation.

Article 230 of the VAT Directive lets an invoice be expressed in any currency provided the VAT payable is expressed in the member state's own currency. Ireland transposes only the second half, and does it in the VAT Regulations rather than in the Act. The permission to invoice in any currency is left to the Directive itself.

«The amount of tax included on an invoice or other document issued in accordance with Chapter 2 of Part 9 of the Act is required to be expressed in euro.»

Reg. 20(8), Value-Added Tax Regulations 2010 (S.I. No. 639 of 2010)

Why the ECB rate is safe in every member state. The second subparagraph of article 91(2) of the VAT Directive, inserted by Directive 2010/45/EU, says member states shall accept the use of the latest exchange rate published by the European Central Bank at the time the tax becomes chargeable, and that conversion between two currencies other than the euro goes through the euro rate of each. It is an obligation on the state, not an option for the taxpayer. The same sentence lets a member state require you to notify it that you use the ECB rate; ask your accountant whether Ireland does.

When it reaches you

If you sell through the stores, this bites in one case.

Article 230 constrains the amount of VAT payable or to be adjusted. An app developer's ordinary invoice to a store or an ad network carries no VAT amount at all: it is a reverse-charge supply to another member state, or a supply outside the scope entirely. Where there is no tax line, there is nothing for the currency rule to bind. The rule reaches you on a supply that actually charges Ireland VAT.

What Ureta does about it

The rate is pinned when the month is, and it is kept with the document.

  • The ECB reference rate, for every EU tenant. It is the rate article 91(2) obliges every member state to accept. A currency other than the euro is converted through the euro, as the same article says.
  • The rate is pinned per month and stored, so a document issued last March still reports the rate it carried in March rather than a number recomputed today.
  • Nothing is guessed. Where no rate from a defensible authority is available for a currency, the engine refuses to issue rather than putting a plausible wrong number on a legal document.

How this page was read

Every sentence above came from the text, and here is which text and when.

The regulation Value-Added Tax Regulations 2010 (S.I. No. 639 of 2010), reg. 20, as made, read 25 August 2026. Source.
The Directive Directive 2006/112/EC arts. 91 and 230, consolidated to 1 January 2025, read 25 August 2026 from the Publications Office. Source.

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