UPDATE (August 4, 2020): By the end of July 2020, other German states had followed suit and also granted an extension of the non-objection period until March 31, 2021, the only exception being Bremen.
On July 10, 2020, four finance ministers decided to give businesses with electronic cash registers a helping hand. While the deadline for implementing the KassenSichV expires on September 30 in all other German states, retailers and restaurants in Hamburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria now have more time to upgrade their cash registers.
No amount of pleading and urging by affected industry associations has helped so far - German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD) has remained firm when it comes to extending the non-objection period for implementing the Cash Protection Ordinance went.
Although it is highly unusual in terms of fiscal policy, the above-mentioned federal states are going their own way with regard to the practical implementation of the extended tax laws and technical guidelines. The new deadline is therefore March 31, 2021.
Economic aid in times of crisis
For this NRW Finance Minister Lutz Lienenkämper (CDU): "In these months of the Corona pandemic, we are doing everything we can to help our economy through this time," says Minister Lienenkämper, "my colleagues and I agree: bureaucratic hurdles from Scholz would be absolutely counterproductive at the moment." Hesse's Finance Minister Michael Boddenberg (CDU) expressed a similar view: ""Hesse is a pioneer in the fight against tax crime. That's why action against cheating cash registers remains important. However, in times of partly existential burdens due to the Corona crisis, we must grant entrepreneurs a longer transition period."
However, in order to benefit from the extension of the deadline, the companies concerned must comply with conditions:
- die erforderliche Anzahl an TSE muss bei einem Kassenfachhändler oder einem anderen Dienstleister bis zum 30. September 2020 nachweislich verbindlich bestellt beziehungsweise in Auftrag gegeben werden oder
- The installation of a cloud-based TSE must be planned (e.g., in the case of a central cash register in companies with a large number of branches), but is demonstrably not yet available
The ministries of finance are doing away with bureaucratic red tape in the process: retailers and catering businesses do not have to submit a separate application to the relevant tax offices. For further reading, please refer to the Hessian state decree dated July 10, 2020 here.
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