NEWS

The world is entering a very turbulent period where economies are becoming dependent on proper fiscalization. Many countries in 2016 has started implementation processes related to changes of the existing or defining new fiscal laws and regulations, launching tenders for the procurement of necessary HW and SW for fiscal solutions and finally in some countries successful fiscalization has generated new revenues.

The upcoming year (2017) will remain very colorful, in terms of different views of what is the best fiscalization method. Many countries have already voted new legislations or are just now preparing for it. The goal is common, combatting the black economy, mostly in cash-based sectors. Following is a quick recap of events that are ongoing in some fiscal countries:

Poland is one of the oldest fiscal countries using fiscal cash registers and fiscal printers. In period of 25 years there was no technological advancement, all devices were based on fiscal memory. Poland is country with approximately 2 million cash registers, among which 600.000 have twin-roll printer (receipt and paper journal roll).

According to Eurostat statistics shadow economy in Poland is estimated at 50 billion zł (more than 11 billon of EUR).

After years of hesitation, the federal German government takes up the fight against manipulated receipts. Until the draft bill, (“A draft law for protection against manipulation of digital recordings”) presented in March 2016, there was no special requirements in Germany, to deal with manipulated cash registeres. The lack of this regulation resulted in a growing number of taxpayers found to be manipulating sale data records from year to year. Recently, in July 2016, the draft bill was supplemented with amendments which was further defining the individual articles of the previous draft bill and prolonging date of the law implementation.