National Assembly overturns veto on certified cash registers

In July, the bill was passed in a 48 to 30 vote

Certified cash registers are to be phased in over two years, starting December 1, 2015. The measure is expected to raise an additional 50 to 100 million euros per year. Foto: BoBo

In a 52 to 13 vote, the National Assembly (Slovenia’s lower chamber of parliament) again passed a bill to introduce certified cash registers after the motion was vetoed by the National Council (upper chamber) on Friday.

On Friday, the National Council vetoed the bill on certified cash registers in a 15 to 13 vote. National councilor Alojz Kovšca repeated today that the upper chamber vetoed the bill because it could not establish whether the benefits of the new system outweigh the costs.

He said that the effectiveness of the current system (so-called virtual cash registers) has yet to be properly evaluated. Now that a new system is being introduced, it will be difficult to measure the effectiveness of each system separately, Kovšča said, adding that the law will fall short of curbing the country’s shadow economy.

Finance Minister Dušan Mramor meanwhile stressed that the introduction of certified cash registers is only one step in a series of measures designed to fight the shadow economy – the first step being the introduction of virtual cash registers in 2013, followed by the introduction of carbon-copy receipts earlier this year.

T. H.; translated by D. V.