I'm not sure if I understand correctly. You can put {$invoice.date} anywhere you like in "simpleinvoices/templates/invoices/default/template.tpl". Or to simply get the year try:<?php(This is untested off the top of my head)
echo date("Y") ;
?>
Move some HTML into the echo-statement if you get an undesirable linefeed.
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