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Minor inconvenience vs Mexico electronic invoice hell. Our VAT is 16%, for everyone except a select group of small business, of a now discontinued tax regimen. We must issue a dual cryptographic signed XML invoice (by the emitter and the tax authority) with individualized items with ID codes from a tax authority catalog of recognized products and services, that includes tampons (53131615) to warships (25111708) to radical ecological organizations (94131701). Every invoice needs to be sent to the tax authority servers to get the second signature, without it the invoice is not valid. Without it is not possible to deduct to VAT payments, or (monthly) tax filling in general. No internet, no invoice software, no computers, equals no invoice and no invoice is almost tax fraud. A fiscal invoice is only emitted when a customer asks for it, but businesses are obliged to emit a "general public invoice" with all the sales where customers don't ask for a fiscal invoice.


Try to vacation in Italy: Consumers are obliged to get an invoice, businesses are obliged to provide one. Including cryptographic signatures (but without the big-list-of-article-numbers and centralized signatures craziness). The financial police are allowed to stop customers within a certain distance of a business and ask for the invoice for their purchase. If the customer cannot provide one, the customer and the business are fined heavily. That's why the business owner will get very angry with you when you (as a clueless tourist) immediately chuck the invoice in the bin, because why would you keep the invoice for a pack of gum...


> the customer [... is] fined heavily.

Sorry, but do you have a source for that claim? Cause I have yet to witness the Guardia di Finanza charging a customer in any way whatsoever.


https://www.roderickconwaymorris.com/Articles/344.html

Google will find some more. But I'm not fluent enough in italian to find the respective law.


> warships (25111708)

That's 3366113 in the US and Canada:

https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p3VD.pl?Function=getVD&TVD=...


Where can I purchase one of those "radical ecological organizations"?




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