A small one fiscal revolution waits traders ed merchants in the first months of next year. From the January 1, 2026Indeed, all cash registers must be connected to the Pos used for i electronic payments. An innovation that aims to make the verification of transactions more immediate and reduce the space for processing, especially in cases where cards and digital instruments are accepted. The measure had been inserted into the maneuver of 2025but only to end of October l’Revenue Agency clarified operational methods and timing. The first concrete effects, however, will not be seen before March or April 2026.
How the connection between POS and recorder will work
No cables or additional devices: the connection will be purely digital. The merchant must access his personal area on the Revenue Agency website, in the section “Invoices and Fees”and associate the cash register serial number – already present in the tax register – with the electronic payment tools used at the point of sale. From that moment, every payment made by card or other cashless systems will also be automatically recorded by the cash register. In practice, it will no longer be possible to issue a receipt for an amount lower than the amount collected, nor to completely omit the payment. Any discrepancies between receipts and declared fees will emerge immediately from checks.
Objective: to make escape more difficult
Until now, electronic payment in itself did not guarantee total transparency of the operation. With the new system, however, the intent is to make it much more complex to “adjust” the amounts or not issue the receipt. Naturally, everything will depend on whether the merchant registers his POS correctly. The platform for making the association is not yet active: the Revenue Agency has announced that it will be available “in the first days of March”. From that moment the first deadlines will start.
Deadlines and times to comply
Anyone who already has an active POS at January 31, 2026 will have 45 days time to complete registration. If the platform opens in the first week of March, the useful window will close in the second half of April. For those who will start using a new fully operational POS, the rule will always be the same: registration must be carried out from the sixth day of the second month following activation and by the last working day of the same month. Example: a POS activated in June 2026 must be registered between 6 and 31 August. The same procedure will also apply in case of replacement of the device.
Compliance letters and sanctions
Communications from the Revenue Agency will also start next year to those who will have to regularize their position. The letters will be addressed above all to those who are not obliged to have a cash register – such as tobacconists, driving schools or petrol stations – and will continue to transmit the daily payments. In case of inconsistencies between the amounts communicated and those recorded by the POS, the Tax Office will ask for clarification. For those who are found to be completely out of compliance, i.e. without the connection between the POS and the recorder, fines of 100 euros will be triggered for each missing transmission. There is also a one-off fine of up to 4,000 euros, the same applied to those who do not have the necessary tools to issue receipts.
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