Enacted 🚨 Action required E-invoicing

Brazil adds NF-e/NFC-e group YC to carry split-payment linkage data

This page records one dated change. For the rules in Brazil as they stand today, see the Brazil guide →

Jurisdiction
Brazil
Tax
IBS/CBS
Change type
E-invoicing
Status
Enacted
Impact
Action required
Effective
5 October 2026
Instrument
BR-NT-2026-006
Authority
Portal Nacional da NF-e / Receita Federal do Brasil
Systems
ERP, Invoicing, Tax engine, E-commerce
Verified
Fetched from official source · high confidence
Who this affects

Any business issuing NF-e or NFC-e fiscal documents in Brazil. The new fields are not mandatory in the production environment during 2026, so no taxpayer must populate group YC yet, but the schema and validation rules go live on the dates below ahead of the IBS/CBS split-payment mechanism's planned 2027 start.

What to do

Add the new NF-e/NFC-e group YC and event 110300 to your fiscal-document layout. Homologation testing opens 5 October 2026 and production implementation is 3 November 2026, though the fields need not be populated in production during 2026.

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The change

The Portal Nacional da NF-e published Nota Tecnica 2026.006 version 1.00 in August 2026, creating a new NF-e and NFC-e layout group YC carrying information linking the fiscal document to the payment transaction for split payment, together with a related event of code 110300, ahead of Brazil’s IBS and CBS split-payment mechanism. Filling the new fields is not required in the production environment during 2026; homologation testing starts on 5 October 2026 and production implementation is scheduled for 3 November 2026, with activation tied to split payment’s planned entry into force from 2027.

What changed in detail

The Portal Nacional da NF-e published Nota Tecnica 2026.006 version 1.00 in August 2026, creating a new NF-e and NFC-e layout group YC carrying information linking the fiscal document to the payment transaction for split payment, together with a related event of code 110300, ahead of Brazil’s IBS and CBS split-payment mechanism. Filling the new fields is not required in the production environment during 2026; homologation testing starts on 5 October 2026 and production implementation is scheduled for 3 November 2026, with activation tied to split payment’s planned entry into force from 2027.

What it means

Nothing breaks in production this year — the fields stay optional through 2026 — but the schema itself is now fixed, which is what homologation on 5 October actually tests: that ERPs and invoicing platforms can emit a syntactically valid group YC and the linked event 110300 before the mechanism is switched on. Building this against the live layout in October, rather than reverse-engineering it once split payment goes live in 2027, is the point of the lead time. Event 110300 sits alongside the document rather than inside it, so the technical work is as much about the event-handling pipeline as the invoice XML itself.

Proof

Criação do grupo YC. Informações da vinculação da transação de pagamento do DF-e (Split Payment) e regras de validação relacionadas.

Creation of group YC. Information on linking the DF-e payment transaction (Split Payment) and related validation rules

Nota Tecnica 2026.006 v1.00 — Portal Nacional da NF-e / Receita Federal do Brasil · captured 31 August 2026
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