• letmesleep@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Asking defeats the purpose.

    The point is that receipts make it extremely easy for IRS agents/tax officers to check whether a till actually registers all sales. They just need to make a few purchases and then later check whether what’s on their receipt matches the till’s memory. But it doesn’t work if they have to ask for a receipt. A portion of turnover will be declared anyway and it’s going to be that with receipts if those are optional.

    Sure, a tax dodger might end up going through the garbage to remove the transactions corresponding to receipts that were thrown away from their records, but that’s at least quite a bit of effort.

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      1 year ago

      Sure, a tax dodger might end up going through the garbage to remove the transactions corresponding to receipts that were thrown away from their records, but that’s at least quite a bit of effort. I don’t know where you live, but in france the government doesn’t check the garbage to find the receipt for simple groceries

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        1 year ago

        The point is that an IRS agent wouldn’t throw the receipt in the garbage. I.e. the garbage would be the easiest way to determine which receipts might end up being used as a reference by the authorities.

        I know people who work in the tax office. Mandatory receipts being necessary is an undisputed fact for them.