Regarding the Ordinance on technical requirements for cash registers, issued on September 12 2021 by the Ministry of development, labor and technology, fiscal devices and cash registers are divided into different types.
Mainly, as it was before, it depends on the manner of keeping records-does it requires having some special functions, or not. That is all in function to create cash register according to needs of the taxpayer and his business.
New technical requirements for cash registers in Poland
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Therefore, there will be:
1) autonomous cash registers - cash registers with an inbuilt database of goods and services
2) fiscal printers
on the market.
Also, cash registers are divided into the following categories:
1) general cash registers - cash registers intended for keeping records in a way that does not require the use of special functions and design solutions
2) special purpose cash registers - cash registers whose structure and work program take into account specific validity of these cash registers and meet the specific technical requirements set out in the regulation related to specific forms of keeping records of sales or sales of specific goods and services or need the cooperation of the cash register with other devices necessary for use in a given type of activity, including cash registers: intended to keep records of the provision of passenger transport services and their hand luggage, taxis or motor vehicles other than taxis, for keeping records of the sale of drugs, with the function of accounting for reimbursed prescriptions, intended to keep records in the provision of passenger transport services.
Also, it is important to note that the cash register may combine different categories of cash registers mentioned above, as long as the cash register meets the technical requirements for each of these categories of cash registers.
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