NF525 in France, KassenSichV in Germany, RKSV in Austria, Fiskalizacija in Croatia, VeriFactu in Spain, RT in Italy, eKasa in Slovakia… Compare the 27 EU regulatory frameworks and check in 10 seconds whether your retail / HORECA / service project is concerned.
Check my complianceThe 27 member states implemented VAT anti-fraud through distinct architectures. Identifying the applicable model is the first step toward compliance.
Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia: device approved by the tax authority, physically sealed, prints a receipt with fiscal number and tamper-proof memory stamp.
France (NF525), Portugal (AT), Spain (VeriFactu): your software must be certified by an approved body and export each transaction in standard SAF-T format to the administration.
Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Greece (myDATA), Spain (VeriFactu/TicketBAI): each receipt is sent over HTTPS to the tax authority server at issuance, which returns a unique identifier printed on the receipt.
Germany (TSE), Austria (RKSV), France (NF525 hardware route): BSI/A-Trust certified cryptographic component that signs each transaction, ensuring memory integrity and traceability during a tax audit.
Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands (voluntary KBA label), Sweden (€20,000 threshold): no mandatory device, but the bookkeeping archiving rules and VAT rules apply in full.
Data verified April 2026 — indicative costs excluding maintenance and training. Click the source to consult the official text.
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Start my free diagnosticNo. The French anti-VAT-fraud law (NF525), the German KassenSichV or the Italian RT target physical B2C transactions (cash, card, cheque collected face-to-face). Distance selling with electronic invoices falls under different rules (Peppol EN 16931, ViDA 2030). A purely e-commerce store with no in-person collection is not subject to cash-register certification.
Setup cost ranges from €0 (countries with no certification: CY, IE, LU, FI, EE, CZ since 2023) to €2,500 (German TSE, Belgian HORECA GKS, Spanish VeriFactu with installation and digital certificate). Typical recurring annual cost: €60 to €500 (certificate renewal, regulatory updates, vendor subscription). Our comparator above shows country-by-country brackets, verified April 2026.
NF525 (France) certifies a software package against four criteria — inalterability, security, retention, archiving — through an accredited body (Infocert, AFNOR Certification, LNE). TSE (Germany) requires a BSI-certified cryptographic module attached to the software: it signs each transaction and stores the trace in hardware memory. France also accepts USB-key solutions equivalent to TSE. Both models pursue the same VAT anti-fraud goal under different architectures.
Sanctions vary widely: €7,500 per non-compliant software in France (Article 88 LF 2018), up to €25,000 per register in Germany (§379 AO), 30-day administrative closure in Romania, 20% of turnover in Spain under TicketBAI, €100 to €500 per receipt in Greece. The audit can go back six fiscal years. Remediation forces the purchase of equipment plus the recovery of presumed evaded VAT.
ViDA (VAT in the Digital Age, adopted March 2025) harmonises B2B invoicing and VAT reporting but does not directly touch retail/HORECA cash-register fiscalisation. Each member state keeps its national framework. Convergence might emerge through myDATA (Greece), VeriFactu (Spain) and the Belgian GKS expansion — all three rooted in real-time transmission to the tax authority. The likely 2030 de-facto standard is 'online + electronic signature + SAF-T export'.