Fun fact about cash payments in Germany - they're all reported to the government in real time. There used to be fiscalization rules that meant Point of Sale dev

Fun fact about cash payments in Germany - they're all reported to the government in real time. There used to be fiscalization rules that meant Point of Sale devices had to store 5 years worth of transaction data for auditing, but recently theyve moved to just having the POS report everything directly over the Internet. Lots of countries do the same sort of thing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscalization https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscalization