Electronic payments and receipts travel together to facilitate tax checks thanks to the connection between POS and cash register. The operation is simple, but for many it burdens the activities
With the debut of the new online service to establish the connection between POS and cash registeron March 5th, in the coming weeks merchants will have to adapt to the novelty foreseen by Maneuver 2025.
Payment and electronic receipt data become inseparable to favor i Revenue Agency controls.
The operation, especially for the more linear cases, is completed in just a few clicks. Everyone agrees on the simplicity of this new fulfillment. But readers are divided on the perception of the new rule.
Connecting the POS to the cash register to facilitate checks: yet another requirement or effective anti-evasion?
Among those who participated in the survey on the topic via the pages of the newspaper the majority is overwhelming: for the80 percent the combination of tools used for electronic payments and receipts it’s a way to weigh down further the activity management.
The position of those who expressed their opinion on the issue is more balanced, but of the opposite sign Linkedin page. The survey via social media saw a lower participation of readers who, however, in most cases highlighted the importance of novelty from a perspective of fight against tax evasion.
The obligation to connect between the POS and the cash register was created precisely with this aim and with the objective declared in the technical reports which accompanied the 2025 maneuver to recover 50 million euros starting this year.
The strategic importance of the novelty in this sense was also underlined in the 2026-2028 fiscal policies policy act signed by Minister of Economy and Finance Giancarlo Giorgetti:
“Furthermore, a greater frequency of substantive controls on VAT and direct taxes will be ensured, especially for the types of activities at greatest risk of evasion, using in a predictive key, also with a view to evaluating the prospects of effective recovery of the sums evaded, the data and information available to the Financial Administration, including, the data of the electronic invoices issued and received, the movements resulting from the Registry of financial relations and from electronic payments, as well as the fees communicated electronically, also in light of the obligation to link the information deriving from electronic payments and the registration of the fees (so-called electronic transactions).”
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Connection between POS and cash register: the “cost” for merchants
We expect a coordinated flow of data on electronic payments and receipts double advantage.
On the one hand the connection between POS and cash register will make “the tax certification process (storage and transmission of fees) and the electronic payment process are more integrated, promptly highlighting any inconsistency between collections and receipts issued”as also underlined dossier on the 2025 budget.
On the other hand, the union of the data derived from electronic payments and receipts should protect the same activities, also limiting them to a minimum errors of the financial administration.
In recent years, in fact, some VAT numbers have received compliance letters with requests for large sums to comply with the law arising from incorrect communications.
At the same time in the face of shared benefits, commitments and riskslike any fines of up to 4,000 euros, are all in the hands of the merchants.
And if it is true that the connection is made with a relatively simple operation ea zero costas the Director of Revenue has highlighted several times Vincenzo Carboneit is equally true that the novelty adds to the long list of obligations already foreseen for the activities, as many readers have highlighted.
And in fact, although the full integration of the tools does not require periodic management, even after this first round of pairings to be carried out by the deadline of 20 April, merchants remain required to communicate to theRevenue Agency any news or changes in the use of POS.
| Reference period | Deadline for connecting |
|---|---|
| Transitional phase: instruments already in use on 1 January 2026 or used between 1 and 31 January 2026 | Within 45 days from the date the online service is made available |
| Fully operational: first association of new instruments or any subsequent changes | Starting from the 6th day of the 2nd month following the date of actual availability of the instrument and by the last working day of the same month |
