NEWS | SDC

April 8, 2017

SERBIA: Fiscal lottery mania

Serbia introduced fiscal cash registers in 2004. The following year they had a technological breaktrhough in the world of fiscalization as the first country introducing GPRS modem for remote audit, that is connection between cash register and the server of the Tax Administration.

The success of fiscalization in Serbia by the statements of the Tax directors’ was huge. As the years passed, the efficiency of fiscal cash registers was reduced and taxpayers fiscal discipline decreased.

February 21, 2017

France: less than a year to fiscalization

As announced in December 2015 in our News article “FRANCE- Certified POS in 2018”, it’s a lot close now for the VAT payers in France who will be obliged to use only secure and certified POS software and cash registers, starting from January 2018.

BOI-TVA-DECLA-30-10-30-20160803, the regulation which specifies certification rules is published in August 2016. Requirements must confirm data irrevocability, security, storage and archiving which are the basic rules for the certification process.

January 27, 2017

CZ: Fiscalization system EET registers 100% increase

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.

January 15, 2017

Credit Note in Fiscalisation

How to account for VAT in the circumstance when you offer a discount on condition that something happens later (for example, on condition that the customer buys more from you) or a customer fails to pay full amount based on the installment that previously agreed upon?

January 10, 2017

Fiscalization in 2016: New Year’s Post – short notes

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: