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Another huge change coming to shops in Hungary: say goodbye to paper receipts
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Retailers using cash registers are legally obliged to provide a printed receipt after the purchase. However, if everything goes according to plan, this will change next year. The National Tax and Customs Administration is working hard to find an alternative that will retain the practical benefits of the receipt, but will also be digital.
Paper receipts to be replace by digital ones
Today, traders using cash registers are legally obliged to provide a printed receipt after the purchase in Hungary. G7 understands that the National Tax and Customs Administration (Nemzeti Adó- és Vámhivatal, NAV) is currently working hard on an alternative to this. It would retain the practical advantages of the receipt, but would also be digital.
One of the reasons for the move is that the new digital receipt system would reduce the amount of waste generated, as a significant proportion of receipts end up in the bin. Meanwhile, online receipting also seems to offer a number of new digital opportunities.
How will I use the e-Receipt?
According to Attila Mizsányi, Head of the Risk Analysis and Data Science Department of the NAV, one of the project’s colleagues, the e-Receipt will be launched in July 2024, i.e. in just over a year. The full transition will take four years. The IT background for the paperless receipt has been developed so that all we, customers, need to use it is a smartphone and a downloaded app, napi.hu explains.
I will never use receipts like that.
Another way to be tracked. No, thanks.
Dear oh dear, so as soon as we download the app on our phone we give an unknown entity access all areas, plus a database somewhere holds a record of every single purchase we make? No way.
This is made not for saving paper, it is made to sniff in every one of our expenses. What a bunch of crooks.
So the NAV will know what each individual is buying at a micro level? Sounds like a huge GDPR issue. Ummmm…
And this then means that the government has your phone number and knows what you are buying and how much you are spending.
The Communists are definitely back!!
Agree with all of the above.
The smart retailer uses the said printed receipts to (further) advertise, and/or offer special deals in order to have the customer return, again and again.
“The cash register uploads the receipt to the Receipt Database at the NAV…”
The next step to a digital controlled prison!