• Ziming@feddit.de
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    That works to combat tax fraud though. Cash payment is incredibly popular in Germany, partly because many stores or restaurants outright refuse card payments to avoid paying taxes.

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      That works to combat tax fraud though

      If there only was a way to do something like this electronically…

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        There’s no obligation to provide a paper “Bon,” stores can just offer digital receipts by default.

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          The bakeries I go to usually do this (even though bakeries where crying the loudest back then). Other stores don’t for some reason.

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        If there only was a way to do something like this electronically…

        There is, the receipts don’t have to be paper-based, they can be an email - REWE does that for example, if you have a loyalty card.

        What they didn’t manage to do is find a way to do it electronically without some sort of profile/registration.

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          I’m very sure that they would know a way, but there’s absolutely no incentive to do so.

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          1 year ago

          The person talking about a QR code based system in another comment in this thread would suggest otherwise.

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      1 year ago

      Wait… are you saying some Germans doesn’t respect the law? Is it possible for a German?

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      How is that supposed to combat tax fraud? Nobody keeps their receipts, and in the end if im not offered one when i dont want one, im not gonna ask for it

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        The receipt is printed by a certified cash register. It even has a digital signature at the bottom.

        Sure, the receipt will be thrown away, but the register keeps a record. So store owners can check in their employees and tax authorities can check on the owners.

        The receipt is irrelevant except for ensuring that the purchase is in record.

        It’s much harder to run a tax-free cash-only side business if everyone expects a receipt and the receipt printer has an audit trail.