• mr_pichon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Customer can still get a receipt, it just won’t always be printed, you’ll have to ask. So this wont change anything related to tax evasion, it just means that you won’t have a garbage can full of newly printed receipt next to the exit door

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      1 year ago

      Asking defeats the purpose.

      The point is that receipts make it extremely easy for IRS agents/tax officers to check whether a till actually registers all sales. They just need to make a few purchases and then later check whether what’s on their receipt matches the till’s memory. But it doesn’t work if they have to ask for a receipt. A portion of turnover will be declared anyway and it’s going to be that with receipts if those are optional.

      Sure, a tax dodger might end up going through the garbage to remove the transactions corresponding to receipts that were thrown away from their records, but that’s at least quite a bit of effort.

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        1 year ago

        Sure, a tax dodger might end up going through the garbage to remove the transactions corresponding to receipts that were thrown away from their records, but that’s at least quite a bit of effort. I don’t know where you live, but in france the government doesn’t check the garbage to find the receipt for simple groceries

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          1 year ago

          The point is that an IRS agent wouldn’t throw the receipt in the garbage. I.e. the garbage would be the easiest way to determine which receipts might end up being used as a reference by the authorities.