Mandatory paper receipts returning

Retail businesses in Slovenia must again give out a receipt for goods or services to customers, who have to accept it after this was required only at the customer's request for more than a year.

The old system, which had been in force from January 2016 to January 2022, is being restored after the National Assembly on 22 March overrode an upper chamber veto on the reintroduction of the receipts, which can be issued in either paper or electronic form.

The latter is actually being promoted by the government with Finance Minister State Secretary Tilen Božič noting that receipts...