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Currently Sweden is on a race to be first cashless society: many shops completely stopped accepting cash (many also started to use iZettle [1]), people usually
by dmytroi 10y ago
Currently Sweden is on a race to be first cashless society: many shops completely stopped accepting cash (many also started to use iZettle [1]), people usually simply don't carry cash with them, and if it happens that you need to send money to other person: Swish [2] is to the rescue, which is direct bank-to-bank money transfer system for small amounts.
On other hand everything is traceable, you can call tax office and ask who is get paid what, if you want to know where the person lives: just hitta.se them by name, you will also get avg income for household there.
- [1] https://www.izettle.com/ https://www.izettle.com/
- [2] https://www.getswish.se/ https://www.getswish.se/
- jamesblonde 10y agoAt flea-markets, i think about 90% of all transactions are non-cash in Sweden. It's nearly all Swish. Swish is amazing - it's mobile payments supported by all the banks with no transaction cost. You type in somebody's phone number, the amount to give them, then authenticate it with your pin code (using a cert issued by your bank - basically another app).