Exactly the same thing happens in Greece. It used to be very common for shop-owners to "forget" to give you the receipt. After the crisis broke up though people are way more likely to ask for receipts as there are some incentives to do so (minor tax cuts for a specific amount of receipts etc.). Credit/debit card transactions have also tripled since 2008 or so which is good I guess. Things are different with doctors, lawyers etc. though, since virtually noone accepts cards and sometimes you might even need to argue with them to actually print you one. Thus you have some ridiculous incidents of doctors with apparent annual income of 9000 euros which is ridiculously low even for lower class standards. It's getting better, but it's a whole culture that needs to change for these incidents to cease. People using credit/debit cards is a step to the correct direction. In our case a cashless world might even be good.