Today, 8 days earlier the begin of the online monitoring of all cash payments on the Czech territory past times the ministry building of finance (initially inwards the restaurant+hotel industry), the so-called EET, the principal mastermind of the campaign, finance government minister in addition to billionaire Andrej Babiš, decided that the critics who said that EET would hold out peculiarly insane for e-shops were right, later all. He volition advise "his" ingenious improvement of EET to the authorities – an exemption for e-shops. At to the lowest degree that's what he told a server named info.cz.
While the elementary slogan defining EET is that it wants to online supervise all cash payments (officially to grapple taxation evasion but no intelligent somebody takes this justification seriously), for certainly reasons, the invention has e'er been to monitor all payments except for regular banking concern transfers. That meant that all payments past times credit/debit cards, PayPal etc. had to hold out supplemented alongside extra software that "reports" all these payments to the finance ministry building inwards existent time, receives 2 codes for the transaction, in addition to demands that the consumer is given a receipt alongside these (very long) codes (FIK, BKP) calculated past times the servers of the finance ministry.
Numerous experts from the Czech e-shop community possess got pointed out that the rules were such that it wasn't physically possible to obey all of them past times almost whatsoever e-shop inwards the existent basis – largely due to some unavoidable delays etc. Others didn't expire in addition to then far but they possess got pointed out the devastating outcome on the most modern technologies underlying the Internet-based economy. For example, some global payment systems don't actually allow yous to insert an extra reporting physical care for to the payment physical care for in addition to they could hold out rendered illegal inwards Czechia. Just because our electrical flow finance government minister is an obsessed communist hugger-mugger police's snitch, nosotros could only isolate ourselves from the progress of the economic scheme on the Internet inwards a similar agency every bit North Korea.
Given Babiš's beingness the de facto prime number minister, it's probable that his beau ministers volition comprehend "his" ingenious thought to exempt the e-shops from EET. It's goodness word because a sector of the economic scheme that could hold out actually wound past times the utterly stupid thought of EET shall hold out saved. (Uber in addition to Airbnb should hold out exempted every bit well.) It's bad word because such an exemption volition increase the inequality of the entrepreneurs in addition to modest businesses inwards front end of the law.
The fact that the ministry building in addition to the authorities haven't been able to figure out that they don't actually possess got a clue what it would do alongside e-shops – in addition to they had to alter this dominion dramatically 8 (or fewer) days earlier the whole crusade is scheduled to begin – is quite a testimony to the incompetence of the acquaint Czech government.
In the info.cz interview, Babiš said that the payments on the Internet are "too complex" which is why he is proposing the exemption.
I am considering an amendment that would take e-shops from EET. They possess got nearly eighteen dissimilar types of payments, in that place are payment gateways there. I desire to utter over it alongside the coalition partners in addition to nosotros volition advise to exempt e-shops from EET.The linguistic communication was improved to mask that Babiš is an inarticulate bumpkin. At whatsoever rate, yous may catch a typical instance what a de facto communist authorities looks like, how it thinks, in addition to how it affects the economy. They invent some ideologically driven insanity. Obviously, they possess got no thought what it would do to thousands of special businesses in addition to their consumers inwards the existent basis – that direct or indirectly impact the whole economic scheme – because they pass their lives inwards some communist managerial offices detached from the reality (or the beaches at the French Riviera, inwards Babiš's case).
So some word nearly these problems larn to the "leaders" (thankfully, the Internet makes it faster than it used to hold out decades ago) in addition to later some angry denial of the problems, they must handgrip that there's a existent work alongside their ideologically driven "improvement" of the society. But what I desire to emphasize is how incredibly incompatible a communist authorities is alongside the real notion of technological progress. Babiš says that "there are eighteen types of payments". This is real funny. Try to count how many types of payments in that place are on the Internet. Ask your best e-payment experts to reply this enquiry – or at to the lowest degree order yous what they recall nearly the question.
This homework practise plainly doesn't possess got whatsoever canonical answer. It depends what yous count in addition to how. (The divulge eighteen could possess got real good resulted from an Internet search that has led to this random page. The listing is clearly unusable inwards Czech Republic because some services are de facto absent hither piece some Czech competitors of PayPal in addition to others exist.) Some methods are almost the same in addition to yous may count them every bit 2 methods or one. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 subset of the methods may hold out numerous – but they may hold out used in addition to then infrequently that someone doesn't count them. And some methods are completely experimental in addition to may larn real of import inwards the hereafter but they are non of import now. The divulge eighteen is clearly only an arbitrarily invented, nonsensical bureaucratic "factoid" without whatsoever existent beef. Babiš has heard the divulge somewhere – likely because he asked the real stupid enquiry nearly the divulge to someone who knows something nearly e-shops in addition to this someone had to offering an reply – in addition to he thinks that he looks smarter when he mentions this divulge fifty-fifty though the outcome is precisely the opposite. He alone unmasks how clueless he is. Unfortunately, alone inwards the eyes of the people who aren't clueless themselves.
Even if in that place existed an algorithm to count the divulge of payment methods on the Internet in addition to fifty-fifty if yous got 18, the divulge eighteen plainly won't hold out truthful inwards ane twelvemonth or two. Babiš is a typical communist cadre politico who hasn't done anything else than trading šit (sadly, this is literally true) inwards his whole professional person career. So it's understandable that he isn't an goodness when it comes to payment methods on the Internet. His noesis is composed of childishly superficial factoids such every bit "there are eighteen payment methods on the Internet". Nevertheless, this Bolshevik apparatchik has accumulated a sufficient ability to harass basically everyone inwards industries that he has no clue nearly – in addition to hold out certainly that it's non only e-shops that he has no clue about. (Last month, Babiš "discovered" the Bitcoin for the firstly time, too.) He has no thought nearly anything except for methods to merchandise šit, mainly alongside the Arabs, in addition to ways to donate doughnuts to his hereafter voters.
It is non difficult to sympathize the unbelievable stagnation inwards the communist countries, e.g. inwards Czechoslovakia betwixt 1968 in addition to 1989. Everything was based on rules such every bit "there are eighteen payment methods". The organization didn't know how to update those things safely even in addition to then meaningfully in addition to then sometime technologies in addition to sometime working habits had to hold out preserved almost everywhere. This may hold out goodness plenty for Babiš's concern – trading of the šit hasn't been evolving in addition to then dramatically – but it's a catastrophe for everyone else.
Babiš is a natural catastrophe for our state in addition to the million(s) of Czech citizens who back upward this catastrophe correspond a national tragedy.
Update Wed evening: Babiš has indeed proposed the exemption to the coalition partners. Social democratic prime number minister, a real irksome emotion-free man, exploded similar the Little Boy. The real contestation that "Sobotka got angry" was interpreted every bit a possible offset of a science-fiction new past times some pundits. He agreed alongside the justification but couldn't believe that Babiš in addition to thousands of his subordinates haven't been able to figure out that in that place existed e-shops for iii years when EET was beingness discussed. Sobotka expressed worries whether EET could operate at all. He ended a real tense coming together prematurely.
Meanwhile, Babiš invented some other exemption – for modest entrepreneuers alongside income upward to $10,000. Those should negotiate a taxation past times a lump center alongside the IRS in addition to avoid EET. Politicians from all other parties unsurprisingly utter nearly chaos.