POS and receipts, the IRS bans speed-up software

Speed-up software for the transmission of electronic receipt data ends up in the sights of the Revenue. The Agency "has not only taken action to raise awareness among operators not to use these applications, but has identified technical solutions currently in the testing phase of tests suitable for intercepting and inhibiting the use of speeders". This was explained by the undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy Lucia Albano in response to a question time in the Finance Committee of the Chamber presented by her party, Fratelli d'Italia, with the first signatory Saverio Congedo.

The request started from the data on the obligation to connect between electronic registers and POS, anticipated by «Il Sole 24 Ore» and on which the Court of Auditors provided an update in the hearings on the DPFP at the end of September with an emergence effect of 13.5 billion compared to the same months of 2025, when the alignment obligation did not exist.

The issue addressed in the answer concerns "speed-up" software. As the undersecretary explained in her response, the applications in question "mask" "the interaction with the Agency's "Online Commercial Document" web procedure, allowing the generation and issuing of commercial documents with an interface different from the one made available by the Agency".

With a problem, however, which is not insignificant, which risks compromising compliance with tax certification obligations and the flow of data on receipts and therefore puts at risk the collection of information which represents a strategic and versatile asset on multiple fronts in the fight against tax evasion. In fact, it happens that "every time the Agency identifies its own procedure, these applications block, exposing the operator to the risk of violating tax certification obligations".

Let's take a further step back. There are two tools for fulfilling the obligation of electronic storage and transmission of fees: the "telematic recorder", currently used by approximately 95% of merchants, and the web procedure called "Online Commercial Document", used by the remaining 5 percent.