In 2020, retailers and restaurateurs, among others, will face new regulations for cash registers! This includes: The obligation to issue documents. With the Cash Register Act and the Cash Security Ordinance, the obligation to issue receipts will be introduced in 2020: Anyone working with electronic cash register systems must provide every customer and guest with a receipt of the business transaction. How now? Always? Yes Regardless of whether just one item is bought or eaten or a large invoice is issued: The receipt must be issued, either on paper or digitally. With the obligation to issue documents, the legislator is pursuing the goal of ensuring that every single business transaction is actually documented. This is a measure to prevent tax evasion, manipulation and black money. The obligation to issue receipts is set out in Section 146a (2) AO and applies to all electronic cash register systems from January 1, 2020. The important thing here is: The law requires that receipts be handed over to every customer. However, customers are not obliged to accept them as well. This is where the regulation differs from the legislation in Italy at the moment, as the customer must bring the document with him. In Germany, on the other hand, the receipt ends up in the trash if the customer does not want to accept it. What now? Even more paper waste even though we are already world champions of paper waste in Germany? You decide! anybill is the innovative and sustainable alternative! The law states that the document does not necessarily have to be handed over to customers in paper form. Cash receipts can also be made available in electronic form. Due to increasing digitization, it is assumed that 25 percent of receipts will be issued electronically. While paper receipts are still the rule at present, the future - also and in particular from environmental protection aspects - lies in electronic receipt issuance. You have the choice as a retailer or restaurateur and can offer your customers a digital and environmentally friendly alternative to paper receipts — with anybill.
