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| January 13, 2017

E-shops will be required to use e-sales from 1st March 2017

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The Finance Minister Andrej Babiš promised at the end of last year that Act on Electronic Record of Sales will include exceptions and that e-sales will not apply for e-shops. At the end of November he provided a specification and said that this exception will be for all payments done with payment cards from the customer’s home. But it is already clear that e-shops will not be able to avoid e-sales as they must respect the current provisions. Andrej Babiš has put forward a suggestion for change of the legislation, however, that has been introduced for discussion in the Chamber of Deputies only 10th January 2017, and in addition to that the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD), the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) and TOP 09 are all against. Because of that we shouldn’t expect that these changes will be agreed on, neither can we rely on it because entrepreneurs would only know about it very shortly before the second wave of e-sales. E-shops are therefore operating in compliance with the current provisions which state that: “in case e-shops (same as other businesses) receive payments in cash, by payment cards or any other similar way, they will keep record of these sales”.