The digitalisation of receipts to boost the move to real-time economy - The government will start using electronic receipts by 2025
(WorldNews Finland)

E-invoicing and e-invoices are commonplace in government operations - now we want to ex-pand these electronic services to cover receipts. Real-time economy, including e-invoicing, electronic receipts and the automation of the payment system, would generate savings of tens of millions of euros per year for the government. The first e-receipt pilots in the central government will start in the autumn of 2019. The purpose of the pilots is to ensure that e-receipts work properly. With the help of these pilots, we intend to make e-receipts part of everyday life in financial administration, starting with central government and expanding to munici-palities and...