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标题：Quebec’s Sales Recording Module (SRM): Fighting the Zapper, Phantomware, and Tax Fraud with Technology
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作者：Richard Thompson Ainsworth ; Urs Hengartner
期刊名称：Canadian Tax Journal
印刷版ISSN：0008-5111
电子版ISSN：0008-5111
出版年度：2009
卷号：57
期号：4
出版社：Canadian Tax Foundation
摘要：On January 28, 2008, Quebec’s minister of revenue, Jean-Marc Fournier, announced that by late 2009 Revenu Québec would begin testing an anti-fraud device—the “sales recording module” (SRM)—in the restaurant sector. The srm is designed to detect the erasure of digital sales records in electronic cash registers and point-of-sale systems—a type of fraud that contributes to more than $425 million annually in lost tax revenues in the restaurant sector alone. Quebec studies indicate that restaurateurs are increasingly employing technology to alter digital records in order to conceal income from the business and avoid reporting and remitting taxes due. The srm will assist provincial auditors in detecting such fraudulent activities. Revenue authorities around the globe have taken two approaches to assuring the integrity of business records in cash-intensive industries: one approach secures the till; the other relies on principles of compliance and enforcement to encourage good business practices. With the introduction of the SRM, Quebec is taking steps to become a “fiscal till” jurisdiction. This article considers the SRM in a comparative context. The technological approaches of Germany and Greece (both of which are fiscal till jurisdictions) are contrasted with the approach adopted in the Netherlands (a principles-based jurisdiction), which relies on intensive technology-based audits to assure digital record accuracy. The article concludes with a suggestion that there may be something to learn from the us streamlined sales tax initiative, which employs government certification of tax technology to ensure the accuracy of transaction tax determinations.
关键词：Fraud n tax evasion n restaurants n anti-avoidance n technology n SR M