This directory can help you choose (or to design your own) ultimate solution to combat invoice misuse and tax fraud.
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Common Name
Main Features
Countries with legislation
Certified Cash Register Systems
Operate in accordance with specification
Sweden, Belgium, Quebec, Rwanda
Certified Cash Register can be any type of ECR or POS software (model / version) which was subjected to some sort of evaluation by the Authority and therefore is registered and trusted to be temper free.
Common Name
Main Features
Countries with legislation
Electronic Cash Register with fiscal memory
Storing daily-Z report to fiscal memory
Italy, China, Russia, Greece, Romania, Poland, etc
Fiscal ECRs are different in functionality and sizes but all together unique for the use of special memory chip for the purpose of storing daily totals.
Common Name
Main Features
Countries with legislation
Electronic Signature Device
Signing documents and storing signatures
Greece, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
Electronic Signature Device with fiscal memory is used to sign an image of a document/receipt with encrypted signature. At the end of a day, a daily “Z” report is produced with master signature which is the only one stored inside of fiscal memory.
Common Name
Main Features
Countries with legislation
Fiscal GPRS Terminal
Communication with fiscal memory and remote data transfer
Serbia, Bulgaria, Ethiopia, Tanzania, etc.
GPRS Terminals are custom made for the purpose of remote audit by Tax Administration. Nowadays they are can often be found as built-in parts of fiscal ECRs and fiscal printers.
Common Name
Main Features
Countries with legislation
Kontrollenheter (Swedish)
Signing and storing receipts
Sweden
A Control Unit device is designed to store and sign receipts. There are 3 types:
Type A = connected to the port of ECR/POS
Type B = connected between POS and printer mechanism
Type C = connected to the port of ECR/POS through network with multi-user functionality
Common Name
Main Features
Countries with legislation
Fiscal Printer
Communication with POS and storing daily-Z report to fiscal memory
Venezuela, Mexico, Greece, Italy, Poland, etc.
Fiscal printers have same firmware functionality as cash registers with fiscal memory, but without the same user interface, instead it is connected to adjusted Point of Sale system, replacing the slip printer as receipt issuing mechanism.
Common Name
Main Features
Countries with legislation
Module d’enregistrement des ventes
Signing and storing receipts
Quebec
The SRM is a solution Revenu Québec created to fight tax evasion in the restaurant sector. To function properly, the SRM must be connected to a cash register with separate receipt printer or between point-of-sale system and a receipt printer. The firmware is developed in-house, based on Microsoft OS.
Common Name
Main Features
Countries with legislation
Insika
Signing receipts
Germany (taxi)
The Insika project is not active yet, although tested well and proven to be working.
Developed at PTB Institute in Berlin on request of Federal Audit Office due to many zappers discovered in Germany.
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Main Features
Countries with legislation
EBM
Signing and storing receipts
Rwanda
Electronic Billing Machines consists of two components (Certified Cash Register and Sales Data Controller). Only when both components comply with its requirements, they form an EBM system once connected to each other, enabling production of verifiable invoices/receipts and local/remote audit.