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In some countries whenever you print a receipt, a copy is also sent to the IRS equivalent of that country. Obviously there are events where that can't happen du
by cbg0 1y ago
In some countries whenever you print a receipt, a copy is also sent to the IRS equivalent of that country. Obviously there are events where that can't happen due to technical reasons outside of the store's control.
- mytailorisrich 1y agoWhich countries? And, again, I doubt that this is the full picture because there are many cases where people simply don't "print a receipt" perfectly legally...
- thyristan 1y agoGermany for example mandates printing a receipt. The receipt must be stored in a certified storage inside the cash register and is signed cryptographically, including the hash of the previous receipt such that there is a hash-chain of printed receipts. Therefore each printed receipt that the customer takes home (and maybe at some point hands in to the tax office for some reason) can be used to check the integrity of the cash register storage and all prior receipts in the chain. https://www.lexware.de/wissen/buchhaltung-finanzen/neue-regelungen-zur-technischen-sicherheitseinrichtung-tse/ https://www.lexware.de/wissen/buchhaltung-finanzen/neue-rege... https://www.lexware.de/wissen/buchhaltung-finanzen/kassenbon-pflicht/ https://www.lexware.de/wissen/buchhaltung-finanzen/kassenbon... Many other EU countries have similar regulations, and in some cases had them for a long time.
- mytailorisrich 1y agoThanks! European red tape madness strikes again... At least in France cash registers are not mandatory (for now...) so there is a way around this madness.
- District5524 1y agoThis is a bit more than just red tape madness, it's a strategy to make businesses more transparent. This is about trying to reduce non-reported transactions and too many people dodging their reporting. Even if the rules for cash registries and reporting are detailed, a) that's not really expensive for businesses - it's easy to automate and there are quite a number of competitors; b) compared to accounting and tax rules, they are dead simple. Receipts or invoices are the basis for a firm's whole economic activity, including the underpinning of their financial reporting, their tax burdens etc. And businesses failing to provide receipts erodes not only the tax base, but also any rights a consumer may have.
- mytailorisrich 1y agoThe thing with red tape madness is that it is always perfectly justified.
- aforwardslash 1y agoIts actually less red tape. Getting a second copy of a given invoice is trivial, processing of invoices for tax rebates is also mostly automatic (such as health and education expenses); tax invoicing uses well-defined formats, so its trivial to migrate between systems, and perform all kinds of analysis. Also, it increases transparency - you know that eg. the VAT you're paying is not ending in the vendor's pockets.
- drooopy 1y agoWhat red tape madness are you even talking about?
- aforwardslash 1y agoSame in Portugal. Sync with the tax authority can be immediate or deferred (every x days). Obviously, you can still invoice manually using a receipt book, in case of failure or unavailability of software systems.