The draft for a law on amendments to the law on value added tax will be on the agenda for the 72nd session of the Legislative Committee of the Parliament of Montenegro, which is to be held on March 23, 2023. However, the draft contains only minor changes to the already existing law on VAT.   Read more

The Croatian Tax Administration announced that the validity of the server certificate of the Tax Administration, cis.porezna-uprava.hr, which is used in the production environment of the fiscalization system, will expire in April 2023. The new server certificate will be implemented on the side of the Tax Administration system on Wednesday, April 5, 2023, around 05:00. Taxpayers can download the... Read more

Private dematerialization platforms (PDPs) for electronic invoicing (e-invoicing) are playing a key role in the digitization of invoicing and accounting processes. The PDP serves as an interface between taxpayers and the Public Invoicing Portal (PPF) and has various roles in managing the invoicing process. One of the key roles of PDPs is to create and issue e-invoices on behalf of their clients, a... Read more

Germany has implemented a new tax regime for single-use plastics, which includes food containers, packets, cups of beverages, beverage containers, wet wipes, lightweight plastic carrier bags, and tobacco products. This legislation is a part of Germany's commitment to reduce its carbon footprint and tackle the issue of plastic pollution. Starting from January 2024, manufacturers, importers, and int... Read more

In the summer of this year, cash registers and EFT card terminals (POS payment systems) became interconnected, enabling the tax control mechanism to know in real time the amount and time each retail sales receipt is issued, as well as the method of payment by the customer. As a short reminder, the transaction will be initiated by the cash register for retail transactions, and the operator (cashier... Read more

The jar of tipping is the new target of the ANAF inspectors since it can mislead the actual amount of tips that have been acquired by the establishments that need to comply with the new regulations. The new tipping regulation has brought about the necessity to record received tips on the receipts issued in the HoReCa industry, and because of that, tips would need to be recorded accordingly for ea... Read more

Did you know that only 3.79 percent of commercial companies are involved in the Code of Ethics? It seems like people do not want government calculators! When establishing the euro, local companies mostly disregarded almost anything that the state institutions tried that wasn't required by law. There is no demand for the Code of Ethics sticker; only three businesses continue to participate in the... Read more

As of 2023, new rules apply for e-service platform operators. More precisely, the Swedish Tax Agency recently provided further clarification on the reporting obligations for digital platform operators. The agency outlined several details regarding the control data that operators are required to submit. This includes the first reporting deadline on January 31, 2024, which covers mediated sales and... Read more

On March 15, 2023, Fiscal Solutions organized a free webinar on the topic of „Meet Fiscal Solutions – What is our core business?“. The webinar was held by Danilo Krstonijević, Account Manager at Fiscal Solutions. This webinar introduces us as an IT specialist for fiscalization and explains in detail what we do. Read more

The Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation and the Ministry of Finance and Public Function published Prior Public Consultation about B2B e-Invoicing on July 3, 2023. - B2B e-invoicing will be mandatory first for large taxpayers (turnover above €8 million) from July 2024, and for the rest of the taxpayers from 2025. The consultation period has different scopes of questions... Read more

Act No. 54921-12/2023/1, which requests Slovenia's support for suggested revisions to the EU VAT Directive 2006/112/EC, was approved by the Slovenian Parliament on March 3. These changes are intended to fight VAT fraud and modernize tax laws for the digital age. The proposed revisions contain a number of steps to combat VAT fraud, such as the implementation of a real-time digital reporting system,... Read more

In relation to e-commerce in Italy, there have been some new changes and obligations for sellers, all in accordance with the newly published Consumer Code. The Italian Government's legislative decree was approved on February 22, which transposes Directive (EU) 2019/2161 on sales and e-commerce and closes an EU infringement procedure. In general, the main obligation is to increase the transparency... Read more

2023 has brought different changes in the scope of the VAT, which also affects fiscalization topics. More precisely, some new dates and announcements are presented, in terms of fiscalization. Those are: Obligation to use cash registers at car washes—from February 1st, 2023 SLIM VAT 3 obligations, effective April 1, 2023 New obligations for payment service providers are to be introd... Read more

The question arises in terms of how vending sales devices are treated in Portugal and whether they are indeed subject to fiscalization. By law, wherever there is a sale of goods or a provider of services, it is mandatory to document those sales, by issuing invoices, using the 3 predefined methods. Does vending have to do so too?  Read more

At the beginning of 2023, there were changes in amendments to the Law on Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing. Based on the same, a legal or natural person performing a registered activity in the Republic of Croatia may not receive or make a cash payment of 10,000 EUR or more. The restriction from Paragraph 1 of this Article also applies in the event that the collection or payment is made... Read more

The purpose of this document is to present an overview of fiscalization in Zimbabwe: is it mandatory? Is there a POS application certification? Are there some specific hardware requirements that need to be followed? Read more