Sonera encourages its consumer customers to move to electronic invoicing by placing a 1 euro fee on paper invoices. We need more companies like Sonera to make this kind of a statement!

http://www.kauppalehti.fi/5/i/talous/uutiset/etusivu/uutinen .jsp?oid=10151

Kesko, a Finnish retail specialist, has decided to stop accepting in-country paper invoices from Autumn 2009 onwards.

The list of companies and municipalities having made the same progressive decision in Finland include e.g. Nordea Bank, City of Tampere, Lindström and TietoEnator.

Who will be next?

Following the example of many companies in Finland and other European governments, the Finnish public sector has set the dead-line for receiving paper invoices. The dead-line is set to the end of the year 2009, after which all the invoices sent to the Finnish government have to be in electronic format.

Link to the press release by the Ministry of Transport and Communications: http://www.mintc.fi/web/fi/tiedote/view/272281

 Paper invoices have NO future. When we understand that then everything else will flow. Hardly necessary to repeat the 5 mega-class reasons:  http://boharald.blogspot.com/2008/08/paper-invoices-have-no- future.html.

 But next it is a question of getting there fast - we cannot afford to be slow. Two actions:

1. invoice receivers to follow the example of 5 EU states, Kesko, Nordea, City of Tampere, Lindstrom, TietoEnator = ANNOUNCE that only e- will be accepted after xx.xx.2009 and grant only ver..