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clickety_clack ◴[] No.46248939[source]
A standard for invoices seems like something that an accounting body should create that is optional for businesses, not something mandatory created by the government. People will generally follow an optional standard to make their own lives easier, but a mandatory one introduces a compliance middleman into the invoicing process.
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1. cogman10 ◴[] No.46249889[source]
Having worked with accounting body standards (NAIC), I can tell you that it really does nothing to improve quality. Especially when parts of the standard encode things like COBOL PIC number symbols. [1]

[1] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cobol-zos/6.4.0?topic=arithmetic...