A new system will start next month that makes it easier for businesses such as companies to save receipts received in daily transactions as electronic data instead of paper.
On the 21st, an event was held at a shrine in Tokyo to pay unnecessary receipts so that people would know about this system.
Tomoaki Makino, a professional soccer player and entrepreneur, and people from companies that provide accounting software participated in the event held at Kanda Myojin in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.
With the enforcement of the revised Electronic Bookkeeping Law next month, paper receipts and receipts, which have been required to be saved by businesses for a certain period of time, can be scanned and saved as electronic data so that they can be immediately discarded. Become.
To get to know this system, Mr. Makino delivered a receipt that the participants no longer need after performing a performance of cutting a large piece of paper in the shape of a receipt with a sword.
On the other hand, under the revised law, it is obligatory to save all invoices sent by e-mail from business partners as electronic data without printing them on paper, but since the company has not made preparations, a grace period of 2 years Will be provided.
Mika Koizumi, the product manager of "freee," who planned the event, said, "It is no longer necessary to collect receipts by mail, which will reduce the burden on companies," and asked for their understanding of the system.