Mobile Cash Register App
This a vision of the future for developing countries. This is uncomfortable vision because it is about Technologies for taxation. Governments get most revenue from income tax and value added tax (VAT or goods and services tax - GST). There are areas in informal economy that tax cannot be collected for examples casual hiring (of labor/vehicles/tools/…, street [food] vendors/hawkers/stalls/…, exchange or barter or swap including pre-used goods,… Governments of course want to maximize revenue (so they can spend more), and to extend sources [bases] of taxes as much as they can.
Today, mobile tellers or tills [cash registers, POS system, cashier machines] are available to capture transactions, print invoices (sale dockets), calculate transaction amounts and taxes (if required) and even provide link to [sellers'] accounting systems (relieving them of mundane accounting work, tracking of business statuses and cash flows or balances,…). As mobile tellers App become more useful, adoption by buyers and sellers is gaining rapidly.
Will governments intervene and add tax and data collection into mobile tellers app.?
We can see a fairer and more equitable tax collection procedure by sales instead of by estimates (which open to corruption among official and vendors). We can see evidence base taxation (by sale transaction data). We can see ‘total economy situations’ or activities covering wider areas almost immediately (this adds more responsiveness to economic corrections). We can draw up connections of supply chains and transport (distribution of goods and services) network,…
Will governments legislate mandatory use of electronic tellers (tills/cash registers) and involuntarily access to ‘certain sale transaction data’ (without impinging on identity and ‘privacy’?
This law will not be easy unless costs and benefits to ‘buyers’ (people) and ‘sellers’ are clearly explained and assurance of data protection is of a very high level. (Though the volume of data by itself can dwarf amateur attempt -to hack- or mine, there are more professional data miners out there!) More importantly are the ways governments spend the tax money [that is ‘trust in government’] must be shown to be worthy for advanced society.
Will you pay by phone on a teller (app) knowing that transaction data will be accessible by banks (accounting services) and government (taxation services)?
Think about this and, if you like, tell me ;-)
[PS. Traffic Police may be equipped with mobile tellers to accept on-spot fines and issue receipts.]
[Added more supporting info. 22/2/2567:
สิงคโปร์, มาเลเซีย แจกเงินโดยไม่กู้ และปฏิรูประบบภาษีพร้อมกัน https://www.thaipost.net/columnist-people/538877/ --Th VAT 8% soon? (legislated at 10%, but collected at 7%), 8% VAT is the norm for SE Asian countries
ส.อ.ท. ชี้ Easy E-receipt หนุนดัชนีเชื่อมั่นอุตฯ ขยับตัวเพิ่ม https://www.thaipost.net/economy-news/538828/ -- มาตรการ Easy e-Receipt (เดิมคือโครงการ e-Refund/ช้อปดีมีคืน) จะลดหย่อนภาษีจากการช้อปปิ้งสูงสุด 50,000 บาท โดยจะจะไม่ใช่การนำยอดซื้อทั้งหมดไปลดหย่อนภาษี แต่จะเป็นการลดหย่อนจากจำนวนเงินได้พึงประเมินสุทธิ ที่ต้องนำไปคำนวณร่วมกับฐานภาษีแบบขั้นบันได – See for example เงื่อนไข และ ข้อกำหนด https://etax.one.th/blog/ช้อปดีมีคืน-Easy-E-Receipt
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Adding to the trend of electronic ‘tax [data] collection’:
สรรพากร แก้ไขแล้ว“รายได้อื่น”โผล่ แบบยื่นภาษีออนไลน์ เหตุปรับปรุงระบบใหม่ 17 ก.พ. 2567 | 9:09 [กรุงเทพธุรกิจ]