"No connection to the PRO!" - that is the message that for a third day now greets citizens when they try to scan a fiscal receipt through the "Moj DDV" app. The Public Revenue Office says the problem is technical and that it is being worked on.

For those who do not follow it daily, "Moj DDV" is the state app through which citizens scan receipts to take part in a prize draw and thereby indirectly encourage fiscalisation - the issuing of fiscal receipts. When the app does not work, the very mechanism the state itself set up to fight the grey economy is the one that suffers.

And here is the irony worth saying out loud. The same state that demands discipline from its citizens - every receipt fiscalised, every denar recorded - cannot keep its own app running for three days in a row. When a citizen is late with an obligation, a fine follows. When the state's system fails, a statement follows that "the problem is technical".

This is not the first time - the connection to the PRO drops almost regularly over the past year. And it is precisely the recurrence that makes the problem bigger than a single technical malfunction. If the tool used to build tax discipline keeps failing, how is that discipline supposed to be taken seriously? Trust in a system is built by the system working - not by messages that it will soon start working.