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Seems like avoiding credit card fees is a perfectly reasonable explanation, at least in the US where fees exceed 3%. It’s trivial for governments to catch busin
by ch4s3 4y ago
Seems like avoiding credit card fees is a perfectly reasonable explanation, at least in the US where fees exceed 3%. It’s trivial for governments to catch businesses that hold a lot of inventory and are cheating on taxes by more than small amounts.
- flohofwoe 4y agoUsually this then says "No card payment under 10 Euros", but still offer card payment for bigger amounts where the fee doesn't matter as much (which IMHO is completely ok).
- Dries007 4y agoThis is no longer legal under the PSD2 framework. In Belgium since last summer you have to accept at least 1 form of digital payment now. Some places try to bypass it by only accepting some obscure creditcards.
- ch4s3 4y agoI'm ambivalent, about card vs. no at small businesses. Places that take cards are more likely to get my business, but beyond that I'm not concerned.
- jeltz 4y agoNot necessarily. Some small business use their cash to buy stolen goods. For example it used to be quite common for restaurants to buy stolen meat using their cash. You can also pay your staff in cash for some of their hours. Both of these are hard to catch unless you actively have people on location tracking the business. Plus removing cash can make other crimes less appealing (like buying stolen meat).
- ch4s3 4y agoIt seems to me like one should police meat theft rather than cash use.