Although there were postponed deadlines in the past, online cash registers will soon have to apply to all industries. The planned process is divided into four stages and is described below.
Compulsory usage of online cash registers in Poland
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Reminder - compulsory usage of online cash registers from July 1, 2021, for other industries.
On-line fiscal cash registers are devices that send data on registered sales to the ICT system operated by the Head of the National Revenue Administration. The first online cash registers are obligatory - for some taxpayers, they had to appear on January 1st, 2020. For other groups of taxpayers, deadlines were postponed because of the situation with the coronavirus.
Soon online cash registers will have to apply to all industries. Cash registers with electronic copies can be bought until December 31st, 2022. From January 1st, 2023, it will only be possible to buy online cash registers.
So, the entire process is divided into 4 stages:
- The first stage - from January 1st, 2020, online cash registers are required to have entrepreneurs:
- providing repair services of motor vehicles and mopeds, including tire repairs, their fitting, retreading and regeneration, and in the scope of replacing tires or wheels for motor vehicles and mopeds; selling motor gasoline, diesel oil, gas intended for propulsion of internal combustion engines
- The next stage, which was planned to be launched on July 1, 2020. However, this obligation was postponed until January 1st 2021. The obligation to use online cash registers at this stage applies to:
- providing food-related services only provided by stationary catering establishments, including seasonal, and in the field of short-term accommodation; selling coal, briquette, and similar solid fuels produced from coal, lignite, coke, and semi-coke for heating purposes
- The third stage of implementing the new obligation has been moved from January 1st, 2021 to July 1st, 2021. It will concern the provision of services:
• providing services for hairdressing, cosmetics, and cosmetology, construction, in the field of medical care provided by doctors and dentists, legal services, etc.
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