Blog - Darko Pavic - Global Retail & Fiscalization Expert

AI, Fiscalization, POS Compliance, Research and Development

By Darko Pavic
September 20, 2026

AI in Tax Compliance Needs a Verification Layer

[wpcode id="143619"] New IRS guidance makes the responsibility clear: AI can assist tax professionals, but consequential output still has to be verified. The harder problem is how to make that verification scalable, traceable and...

Fiscalization

By Darko Pavic
September 13, 2026

Google Open Knowledge Format in Compliance and Compliance Intelligence

[wpcode id="143619"] A new open convention for packaging knowledge could help AI agents use regulatory content more reliably while leaving the harder work of legal meaning governance and accountability to the organizations that provide...

Fiscalization

By Darko Pavic
September 12, 2026

The Netherlands Moves Toward Mandatory B2B E-Invoicing — Retail POS Is Not the Target

[wpcode id="143619"] Domestic B2B e-invoices are planned from July 2030 and digital reporting from July 2031. For retailers, the change matters mainly in finance, ERP and B2B processes, while ordinary consumer checkout and B2C...

AI, Fiscalization, Research and Development

By Darko Pavic
September 6, 2026

From Fiscal Portal to Compliance Intelligence: Why Vector Databases and Embeddings Matter

[wpcode id="143619"] The next generation of regulatory knowledge will not simply store documents. It will understand relationships between them, find the right information semantically and deliver it to humans, software and AI systems in...

Fiscalization

By Darko Pavic
September 3, 2026

From Barcodes to AI Agents: How Standards Became Retail’s Invisible Infrastructure

[wpcode id="143619"] Retail standardization has moved from product identification and device interfaces to shared transaction models and ontologies. The next major gap is compliance. Standards rarely make headlines Fiscal Solutions held recently a webinar...

Fiscalization

By Darko Pavic
August 25, 2026

Spain’s Senate Wants VERI*FACTU, SII and E-Invoicing to Converge. Large Retailers Should Pay Attention.

[wpcode id="143619"] The June motion does not change Spanish fiscal law today, but if its logic becomes government policy, the country’s separate reporting systems could move toward a single transaction-reporting architecture — and large...

Fiscalization, POS Compliance

By Darko Pavic
August 21, 2026

South Africa’s VAT Modernisation Could Become a New Form of Retail Fiscalization

The strongest signal is not the planned B2B e-invoicing regime, but a later phase that explicitly brings B2C and end-consumer transactions into South Africa’s Digital VAT Model. [wpcode id="143619"] South Africa has not announced...

Fiscalization, POS Compliance

By Darko Pavic
August 21, 2026

Why Fiscal Transaction Counters Become So Complicated at the Point of Sale

A simple sequence of numbers can become a serious architectural problem once fiscal law meets the reality of modern retail, cloud platforms and omnichannel transactions. The number printed on a fiscal receipt is easy...

Fiscalization, POS Compliance

By Darko Pavic
August 17, 2026

Italy Refines Its Software Fiscalization Rules as Technical Specifications Reach Version 1.4

[wpcode id="143619"] The latest revision of the Agenzia delle Entrate framework moves Italy’s software-based receipt model further from architectural design and closer to everyday retail operation, with changes touching meal vouchers, connection timing, commercial...

Future of Retail, Leadership & Innovation

By Darko Pavic
August 15, 2026

K-Beauty Is Not a Hype. It Is a Retail System.

[wpcode id="143619"] How Olive Young’s U.S. debut shows what happens when culture, product innovation, social media and physical retail are engineered into one commercial machine. A queue in Pasadena, a signal for global retail...