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What are the main points of the revised electronic book preservation method?

　The main points of the revised electronic book preservation method are roughly divided into three. The first is about the preservation of digital data such as quotations, bills, receipts, and inventory data used in the company's internal management.

　The second is to store digital data, such as quotations, invoices, receipts, transaction details and online banking data received from others.

　The third is the paper documents such as handwritten invoices made by yourself, on the contrary, the quotations and bills, receipts, transaction details, bank passbooks and other paper documents received from others.

　Nowadays, people with things like handwritten quotations and bills should be in a very small minority. Use general-purpose applications such as Excel, specialized applications such as sales management software, and people will also use cloud services recently. In addition, after the introduction of consumption tax, people who handwritten accounting processing were almost gone. In the past, computer-generated quotations, bills, and accounting books in these companies had to be kept on paper after printing.

　However, after January 1, 2022, there is no need to print and save on paper, and the data is maintained on the personal computer. In addition, in the case of a dedicated application, it is still the data of the application. Now, if you are using a cloud service, you can save it as data in the cloud. This is because the management of documents has become easy and very happy, and this revision of the e-book preservation law can be said to be a great benefit for us.

　However, on the contrary, the digital data received by others has become the most tedious point because of the revision of the e-book preservation method.

　As a result of paperless, there are more and more documents such as invoices, receipts, transaction details and so on. In addition, online banking generally does not have a paper passbook. With the popularity of online mail orders such as Amazon and Rakuten, there are many cases of ordering and online ordering.

　The quotations, bills, receipts, transaction details and bank passbooks provided by these online digital data were printed and kept on paper in the past, but this is not recognized, so the digital data must be kept.

　On the other hand, when it comes to quotations, bills, receipts, transaction details and bank passbooks received on paper rather than digital data, through the revision of the electronic book preservation law, scanners are allowed to scan and take pictures.

　This can be a very helpful story for people who have difficulty keeping large amounts of paper, such as store registration papers and paper vouchers for accepting orders, such as restaurants.

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