Blog - Darko Pavic - Global Retail & Fiscalization Expert

Fiscalization

By Darko Pavic
August 3, 2026

Germany’s Tax Crime Action Plan Puts Fiscalization Back at the Center of Retail Compliance

A planned cash-register mandate, real-time VAT reporting and AI-supported enforcement could reshape the compliance architecture around the point of sale. Germany’s federal finance and justice ministries presented a 26-point action plan on 16 July...

By Darko Pavic
July 22, 2026

LLMs Without the Hype: A Plain-English Guide to Models, Tokens, GPUs and the AI Race

Artificial intelligence has become remarkably easy to use and surprisingly difficult to explain. A person can open ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Kimi and begin working within seconds. Behind that simple interface, however, sits an...

Fiscalization

By Darko Pavic
July 17, 2026

AI Sovereignty and Tax Compliance: Why Developing Countries Need Their Own Compliance Intelligence

Digital tax administration cannot be built on borrowed intelligence. If countries want to modernize their tax systems, they must turn their own laws, data, and enforcement logic into trusted national infrastructure. Otherwise, they risk...

Fiscalization

By Darko Pavic
July 15, 2026

France Is Not Delaying E-Invoicing. It Is Designing the Messy Start.

The legal calendar remains. The practical message is different: keep business moving, document every exception, and prove that compliance is already underway. France has not postponed electronic invoicing. It has done something more interesting....

Fiscalization

By Darko Pavic
July 14, 2026

Can LLMs be trusted in compliance?

The Compliance Risk AI Cannot Talk Its Way Out OfWhy large language models are not safe as direct decision engines for tax and compliance outputs The industry has already admitted the problem The most...

Research and Development

By Darko Pavic
July 10, 2026

Before AI Hype, There Was Logic

A 2001 diploma thesis, a blue cover, and the long road from rule-based software analysis to the next generation of compliance intelligence. I recently opened a document that looked as if it belonged to...

AI, Leadership & Innovation

By Darko Pavic
July 9, 2026

Will AI Take Your Job — And Should You Still Go to University?

For students and young professionals, the real lesson from the latest labour-market reports is not to fear artificial intelligence, but to learn faster, build judgment, and use the technology to become more valuable than...

Fiscalization

By Darko Pavic
July 7, 2026

The UK Moves Closer to Fiscalization

HMRC’s consultation on EPOS and MPOS software standards may mark the beginning of a new compliance era for UK retail The UK has opened a consultation that could become one of the most important...

E-Invoicing & Tax Technology, Fiscalization

By Darko Pavic
July 3, 2026

The VAT Fraud Shift Retail Cannot Ignore

Europe’s reverse-charge regime is moving tax risk from invoices to the retail edge. Fiscalization may become the next control layer. VAT rarely looks like a retail strategy topic. It sits in finance departments, tax...

Fiscalization

By Darko Pavic
July 1, 2026

E-Invoicing Is Not a POS Fiscalization Problem

Why retailers should keep e-invoicing close to ERP and accounting, while keeping fiscalization close to the point of sale. The Architecture Mistake Every new e-invoicing mandate creates the same temptation. A retailer already has...