On January 18th 2017, Czech Finance Minister Andrej Babiš held a conference where he spoke about positive results of fiscalization in the Czech Republic. In the first month of system operation (December 2016), 43000 taxpayers issued over 118 million fiscal receipts. Those receipts are generated by the first group of taxpayers. Next group of 250,000 new taxpayers in retail sector is planned to rollout in March 2017.
Registering sales through EET marked an increase of 100%, compared to last year. It certainly proves that fiscalization increased the number of taxpayers who register their turnover, although there were a lot of complaints and resistance. Out of this protest, many restaurant owners have raised the price of their services, blaming it on the new burden – fiscalization.
Mr. Babi
š stressed that last December 102 taxpayer ceased to work due to the new fiscal system, but 370 new business have registered, what he says showed that process of fiscalization did not affect number of taxpayers. For the EET system Mr. Babiš said: “It works, I refuse complaints about fiscalization negative impact on the business community. Most taxpayers are satisfied, the problem is mostly with equipment suppliers”. Public awareness, according to him, is still not satisfactory.
In previous month inspectors made 1842 controls and found only 162 cases of violation as for example non-issuing receipts, not sending data to the system of electronic evidence of sale (EET) and incorrect data on receipts. “The overall results of investigation showed that the vast majority of taxpayers have been very well prepared for electronic registration of sale.” said Martin Janecek CEO of the financial administration.
The average response of electronic evidence of sale (EET) server is less than 100 milliseconds – as measured by independent third parties monitoring server.
