Digital inbox required by law.

(quoted from post at 00:02:37 09/01/13) I live in Denmark and our Danish government has by law decided that every business (including farmers) in the country must by 1st of Nov. have a digital inbox. All information from authoraties and public service will thereafter only be sent by email to this inbox which you will logon via a protected digital signature. This means that a lot of senior farmers who have no internet access and do not know how to use a computer will be left in trouble and it may cause some to give up farming I think. Not all of them have children or grandchildren who can help them out and even if they do who wants all of this personal information shared with their family? We even have spots in the country where just a slow internet connection via old copper telephone line is available and I think websites tend to require speedier connections because the designers are used to good conditions so they put a lot of pictures and stuff on them causing them to hardly work on a slow connection.
We have so far been forced to do our fertilizing reports, spraying reports, herd reports, and applications for all sorts of grants and subsidies on the web.
Last year another rule was introduced: Any payment over DKK 10,000 = USD 1,800 must be a digital transfer. You cannot do it by an ordinary check or cash anymore.
A couple of years ago all public offices started to reject all paper invoices. Everyone who has supplied goods or work to some public institution (could be snow plowing for the county(to make this tractor related)) must send their invoice by email.

I was just wondering, is such or similar regulation common practice in other countries/states and how has it been accepted or would it be accepted if implemented?

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(quoted from post at 02:49:07 09/01/13) Well, that's the direction things are going in the US, although we're not there yet. Personally I don't have a problem with it as long as there's no additional cost to the taxpayer, or if at least the cost is reasonable. But what happens here is that special interests get involved and someone ends up making a lot of money off what should be a free service. [b:3596789953] For example, our Internal Revenue Service could easily provide free tax return software or an on-line site for creation of tax returns. But there are a number of companies that make billions of dollars selling tax return software and services. Those companies spend a lot of money lobbying Congress to ensure the IRS is blocked from creating its own tax return software.[/b:3596789953] Although you can file an electronic return for free if you have a simple return, for anyone with a complex return like mine it costs hundreds of dollars to buy the commercial tax return software to file electronically. Consequently many taxpayers with complex returns refuse to pay for commercial software and still file a paper return. The IRS ends up paying more to process the paper returns than it would cost them to give away tax preparation software.

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