Warning for POS rule dodgers

More than 1,000 enterprises risk high fines that reach up to 20,000 euros each, now, or even more in the future, for failing to comply with regulations on connecting card terminals (POS) with their cash registers.

There are 1,072 businesses which not only have not proceeded to interface the cash registers with the POS, but they have not even made an appointment with technicians within April.

According to the data from the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE), these are businesses with a turnover of more than €1 million in 2023 and most of them concern the food service industry (restaurants, bars, nightclubs, meal preparation companies, catering, hotel bars etc) as well as fuel stations.

The inspection mechanism has been in contact with these businesses since Thursday in order to verify whether their noncompliance is due to negligence or force majeure...