Document format and locale facts for Lithuania

Why these defaults?

The country code comes from ISO 3166. Unicode CLDR supplies presentation-oriented locale, currency, paper, date, language, calendar, numbering, and direction metadata. Defaults reduce setup time; they do not decide what a valid document must contain.

Recorded official or regional-official language tags: lt.

Selected national claims reviewed

Document vocabulary and checks

Lithuanian VAT invoice particulars, ten-year invoice retention and electronic-preservation controls, and the i.SAF invoice-register boundary are reviewed from VMI sources. This generator does not prepare or submit i.SAF. Additional particulars, special transactions, corrections and transaction-specific VAT treatment remain separate checks.

Evidence snapshot: 4 official sources · last reviewed 2026-07-20. This is scoped guidance, not a jurisdiction-wide compliance certification.

Tax labels: PVM (VAT). Business identifier labels: PVM mokėtojo kodas (VAT identification number).

• Guidance: Lithuania's VAT Law requires a VAT invoice to include accounting-document requisites, supplier identity and VAT registration number, purchaser identity, goods/services name, taxable amount, VAT rate and VAT amount, plus any further particulars established under law. The legislation also gives explicit simplified-invoice information and supports i.SAF VAT-invoice registers; special cases may change the required information.Evidence LT_VAT_LAW_INVOICE, LT_VMI_ISAF · reviewed 2026-07-18 · review by 2027-01-18 · automation advisory only
• Required when applicable: Lithuanian VAT invoices, including qualifying cash-register receipts, are kept for ten years from issue; electronic-storage rules require authenticity, integrity and legibility through the retention period.Evidence LT_VMI_INVOICE_REGISTERS, LT_VMI_VAT_GUIDANCE · reviewed 2026-07-20 · review by 2027-01-20 · automation advisory only
• Guidance: i.SAF is Lithuania's VAT-invoice-register reporting subsystem. This generator does not prepare or submit an i.SAF register and does not establish the controls needed for electronic invoice preservation.Evidence LT_VMI_ISAF, LT_VMI_VAT_GUIDANCE · reviewed 2026-07-18 · review by 2027-01-18 · automation advisory only

Identifier format guidance: See the relevant authority.