Businesses that are "cash only"

He did read your post, and pointed out that is not the normal setup in Ireland. Where did you find a machine setup as such?

And as I said…there are no such machines within 20km of me. You've hit lucky but it's far from the norm.

The point is that those machines are not usual nor the norm. You seem determined to get the last, yet inaccurate, word in so fire away. 😴

That's a very unique and incorrect twist on this thread. 1st, and most importantly, it's not about the 80's, it's about now. 2nd, in this age of simple and cost effective cashless payment, most businesses that are cash only, and not issuing a receipt are doing so to under-declare income and avoid paying tax.

Re your bar example. Thats not the same. There is nothing preventing or wrong with a business accepting cash, provided of course, they log the transaction, and issue a receipt.

This. Banks charge for getting change too. I'd say my local publican would be delighted if I went in with coins bagged up and he's give me the cash. It's not a massive pub but he'd take a few hundred I'd say.

As an aside I asked him a while back if he'd prefer cash or card payments he said card all day long. Having said that his safe was fleeced in the middle of the night a couple of years ago so he probably doesn't want any cash sitting in the place overnight.

No, that's not what you said, and I too have never seen one that doesn't charge 10 or 12% on the total counted..

Where exactly is this unicorn? 🤔

I don't buy the argument that businesses are losing out on much business by not offering card payments.

At this stage, almost 6 years after card use exploded with COVID, any business still doing cash only is fully aware how much or otherwise it's costing them in lost business to stay cash only

Many have gone cash only due to the preference of younger customers to use card only.

this statement makes zero sense from a business perspective. Choosing a payment method that your customers find inconvenient only makes sense if you are doing so in order to fiddle on your taxes

And this anecdote about local businesses wandering around asking local sports teams if they needed cash sounds like a really inefficient way of doing business - there is no way that is costs less than just paying the card fees. Unless, of course, it's just a fairy tale that people tell when they want to under-declare their income.

It's funny all the posts on thread saying: "sure the card companies charge you 4%!!", and then the other posts responding: "lol, no they don't, I ran a business and it was only 1%"

People should just admit they don't want fancy paying the taxes, it's a perfectly normal impulse…

How would a cash be worthless in a world war situation? It would be the only form of payment. Bullets and bombes going off. It would be hard to charge the phone with no electric and make a payment on revelout.

If I wanted to buy a snickers in the trenches I could just pay my 2 euro and eat it before I eat a bullet.

I know of a person with Starlink, speeds???? Equipment purchase in late 2023 was €514 and now paying €48.52 per month.

Some cash businesses pay much more tax than they are obliged to by tax law.

Think about a cash business where maybe only 20% of the income declared comes from their genuine trading turnover.

Maybe it is the cost? In the "old days" you rang up items on the till, close, run the till for sales, count the cash less any cash outlays—done. Lodge money in bank next day or whenever. With cards you are having another series of transaction to post, separate from the cash. It is literally twice the work. And when the books go to the accountant at end of the year, you have another round of work to do. For many small, low turnover shops it is not worth it.