In January 2026, about 200 members of the financial police suddenly entered 50 Austrian restaurants with the intention of determining whether these establishments use illegitimate software for issuing fiscal invoices. The financial inspection confirmed the suspicion and determined that a developer sold the illegal software, leading authorities to arrest the developer immediately.
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A year has passed since the official announcement that the Republic of Srpska (an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina) began implementing the new fiscalization system.
The Republic of Srpska has long-standing experience with fiscalization, having introduced its first system in 2008. That initial fiscalization model relied on fiscal cash registers and fiscal printers, with mandatory daily report submissions to the Tax Administration’s server. After 15 years of operation, it became evident that the existing system had become outdated, inefficient, and unsustainable. Both taxpayers and tax officials recognized that the old system no longer served its purpose and that a new one was necessary.
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The Pacific region, long known for its paradise islands, tourist resorts, and tranquil pace of life, is now experiencing an unprecedented wave of e-invoicing and fiscal transformation. What is driving this change, and why are so many countries in the region adopting the same fiscalization model?
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In the first half of the year, and especially during the summer period, the Tax Administration of Serbia conducted a large number of targeted visits to sales locations.
Summer is a period when many fairs, catering, music, and tourist events are held. It is a time when everyone feels relaxed, especially since a large number of these events take place in open spaces. During this period, the Tax Authority intensifies field controls to determine how taxpayers behave in the fiscalization process.
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Belgium has announced the modernization of its fiscalization system, which should start in the year 2025.
Do you want to know the key aspects of this new fiscalization system? What are the challenges Fiscalization 2 will need to face?
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This year marks the 70th anniversary of the VAT – the tax which represents the highest percentage in tax revenues for governments around the world. For some countries, it can be as high as 37% to 40% of the countries’ total yearly collection earnings.
However, this tax would never have existed if, on April 10th 1954, a man in France named Maurice Lauré did not have the vision to create a tax that would not tax the turnover but the added value produced by companies. This vision has clearly been a huge success, so much so that the VAT has even been widely referred to as the “fiscal Grail”.
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Morocco, a country with a population of next to 40 million inhabitants, is slowly but steadily adopting decisive fiscalization practices, expecting to fully embrace them by 2026.
Will they be able to overcome all obstacles and delays they have had since its conception?
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Ethiopia wrote its fiscal law back in 2007, which was advanced at the time, and a year after that began the introduction of fiscal cash registers and fiscal printers. The basic component of these fiscal devices was an integrated and protected fiscal memory. Daily summaries were regularly sent to the tax administration’s server with the help of GPRS terminals.
The fiscalization process was successful and, therefore, attracted the attention of many authors who studied fiscalization and cited Ethiopia as a positive example in their works.
But for how long can a system (including fiscalization) stay effective?
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Greece, a country in the southernmost part of Europe and counting with a population of just above 10 million inhabitants has now decided to extend the use of POS terminals to all economic activities.
Greece is one of the countries with the oldest fiscalization in the world. After several decades of existence, it was determined that the system was largely neglected and outdated. Many taxpayers have significantly reduced the issuance of fiscal invoices, and some have completely stopped doing so.
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