This is a step that the tax sector expects to improve transparency, prevent budget losses and establish a fair competitive environment between the individual business sector and legitimate enterprises.
For a long time, most individual households have operated on trust, manual and informal. Many of these individuals exist outside the invoice and document system, because they have never been equipped with knowledge, skills or opportunities to access the digital system like a real enterprise.
Therefore, if the implementation of electronic invoices (EIA) is only viewed from the direction of tax collection tightening - meaning hitting directly into the wallet without taking into account technical readiness, psychology and digital capacity, the policy is easily misunderstood, even reacting back.
People are wondering and worrying about the increase in costs due to having to hire technology support people, to the fear of being over-examined in a trading activity that is used to flexibility. Especially many elderly people, in remote areas, who do not even know how to use a computer, now have to get used to printers for invoices, tax codes, real-time data connection software.
Therefore, if only based on the threshold of revenue to apply the mandatory requirements without taking into account local factors, business forms or technology readiness, it will easily create negative reactions.
Some households may find ways to "small down" their revenue, registering many individual business locations to avoid thresholds, causing the initial digitalization policy to distort the target.
However, if properly supported, such as on-site guidance, friendly software, preferential mechanisms on conversion costs, and especially clear communication about long-term benefits, those business households will become the pioneering force of the community digital economy.
Board of Directors from cash registers not only helps make transactions transparent, but also paves the way for them to access official loans, connect the supply chain, do business more methodically and sustainably. They not only pay taxes correctly, but are also recorded in the national data system, having a clear position in the economy.
Therefore, electronic invoices cannot be a stick, but a bridge. This bridge is a bridge between a large informal economy and a modern management system, a bridge between people doing small business and the greater opportunities that digital transformation brings.
Effective tax management is a goal, but the higher goal is to create a transparent, fair and inclusive economy from the smallest things, for example, no one will be left behind just because they do not know how to use software.
