OREANDA-NEWS. February 09, 2011. Next month, state institutions will begin using an electronic system to pay their bills, and the finance ministry said hard copies may soon be a remnant of the past.

The overhaul to e-accounting aims to streamline bureaucratic agencies, simplify number-punching for bookkeepers and save money.

This week, the Ministry of Finance subcontracted the national postal service, Eesti Post, whose subsidiary e-accounting center will begin transforming hard copies of bills into electronic format.
Beginning March 1, agencies under the finance and justice ministries will be the first to regularly send their documents to Eesti Post.