An electronic, an automatic system and method for gasoline costs recording, in order to use them as a fiscal document

摘要

Each country of the European Community has the problem to recognise, as fiscal deduction, the legitimate expenses incurred in transportation costs related to work activities.;This problem has been confronted giving way to several partial solutions that do no resolve the conteinment of a high level of fraud, are fragmented and inprecise and do not allow automated, unmanned operations.;The proposed system allows for the electronic registration of all information pertaining to the fuel fill ups, guarantying therefore a legitimate, precise transaction, valid for tax deduction purposes.;This is assured by the secure recognition of the authorised driver, vehicle and vehicle owner.;At the time of each fill up operation, information of the fuel type, volume, pump location, payment amount, payment method, time of transaction, kilometres of car and any other pertinent data, are registered into an Intelligent Customer Fuel Card (ICC) by means of a transportable Customer Fuel Card Terminal (TCC) and other devices integrated in the system.;All transactions included in the card will provide a summary of information enabling the correct expense deduction claim at the time of the tax declaration.;The high level of security provided by the card, may be exploited by the tax authorities in verifying the correct validity of the claim.