Legal analysis: Not required

The receipt is usually issued by the recipient to the payer. After the receipt is issued, it must be signed by the person himself. Whether it is fingerprinted or not does not matter. It is a mandatory requirement of the law. However, in most cases in reality, it is required to press the fingerprint while signing. Failure to press the fingerprint will not affect the legal effect of the receipt.

Legal basis: "Provisions on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Private Lending Cases" Article 2 When a lender files a private lending lawsuit in the People's Court, it shall provide IOUs, receipts, IOUs and other evidence of creditor's rights and other evidence that can Evidence proving the existence of a legal relationship between lending and borrowing. If the creditor's rights certificates such as IOUs, receipts, and IOUs held by the parties do not indicate the creditor, and the party holding the creditor's rights certificates files a private loan lawsuit, the People's Court shall accept it. The defendant raised a fact-based defense against the plaintiff's creditor qualifications. After review, the People's Court held that the plaintiff did not have creditor qualifications and ruled to dismiss the lawsuit.