Going to find a lot of taxis with ‘broken’ card machines for late night pickups
I wonder how the mandatory acceptance of card will work in reality. What’s to stop them permanently saying “machine is out of order”?
> A taxi driver at two or three o’clock in the morning, when somebody has a few beers on them and the system goes down. That’s where the issues will come up. Speaking to members and taxi drivers, that’s the problem that taxis foresee,” he said.
Preparing the excuses early and letting us know about it.
“McGuinness said the vast majority of taxi drivers already offer card payments.”
Jesus I must be ferocious unlucky to have never once managed to land a taxi with a card machine so.
If taxi drivers are giving out about getting no say prices increases, they should be reminded that the metered fare is the **maximum** chargeable fare. They can always accept less if they want.
More expensive? Holy shit
What are we going to do with the bumper tax revenue though?
Card is welcome but I guarantee you there will be a lot of out-of-service card machines or else they’ll just tell you to piss off.
Well, won’t be getting taxi’s anymore
Lads, if any drivers try the “machine is broken trick”, most of the apps have a pay-by-card option even if you haven’t used the app to get the taxi so they can still accept card.
Way to kill taxis. Uber and Lyft will jump in
Lol, 12% increase is probably nothing if it means they have to start accurately reporting their income and paying tax on it.
For me personally, taxi is probably one of the only reasons I keep a little cash at home. I don’t even carry it around with me unless I know there’s a chance I’ll need the taxi. Once card machines become compulsory in taxis, they can forget about most of their cash fares.
Well we need some later bus times so. Everything ending before midnight isn’t giving us a. Alternative to the already crazy prices
Must explain why some lad wouldnt take me home for the typical 20eur fare the weekend and I had to fork out 30 and he wouldnt turn meter on. This after waving down taxis all over town for a solid 40 minutes…..fucking what a shit show of a City we live in…its turning into a free for all all round
No longer need to ask if they accept card. If you get to your destination and the card machine is broken, then it’s free.
Even if they must accept card, you bet that it will take ten times the length of time to get a taxi on freenow than if you offer cash on it.
Yesterday I got a taxi, meter said 8.80, I asked to pay by card. Was charged 10 :/
> while a further 1% fare increase was being provided **to cover the cost of facilitating cashless payments**.
Shouldn’t it be more like 21%, then? :v
The taxis wanted 15% so they are not happy!
And is accepting card a bad thing? It’s time the Irish taxi realised they need to step up coz when you go to another country where you have Uber and other services, you realised that Ireland is as always, Uber far behind the rest…got the joke? Uber far….
Taxis were already extortion but I guess with fuel prices consistently so high it makes sense for them to go up, too bad they’re stay up long after fuel prices settle down.
I taught all taxis have been accepting card for a awhile now. I haven’t paid a taxi in cash in about a year
And this is why we need proper uber with private cars to give some healthy competition and reduce gouging..
Requiring card payments is a no brainer… cost increases make sense since it costs more for them to operate.
All drivers needing to accept card is good. I had a few times I grabbed a cab off the street only to find they only took cash and it was a hassle that made me avoid dealing with them for awhile actually.
So the g0vt really do be rolling out the no cash regime
Hi Everyone. I’m a Taxi driver. I have had card payment option for a long time. For all of you thinking we are all Tax dodgers it’s completely untrue. In order to renew our licences every year we must have a Tax clearance certificate. In the process of filing my return for 2021. You can’t do anything without tax clearance within the industry. Expenses are massive. Just July & August I’ve spent near €2.5k on maintenance and repairs. €200.00 on meter update & verification. We pay VAT everyday on fuel maintenance everything. So please keep that in mind.
12% increase in fares but they’re all going to become 100% visible, which means 100% taxable.
In some cases that will mean a €20 fare which previously would have gone into the pocket is now €22.40, but with usc, prsi and income tax, he might only see about €13.
It might be a good idea to bring €15 in such a scenario and offer cash for a reduced fare.
Now I know why scooters are so popular
All taxi drivers earn less than €8,000 as far as revenue are told.
Improve public transport you morons
It’s funny seeing all the hate for taxi drivers when there is a serious shortage of us on the roads & lots of complaints about the lack of drivers.
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Going to find a lot of taxis with ‘broken’ card machines for late night pickups
I wonder how the mandatory acceptance of card will work in reality. What’s to stop them permanently saying “machine is out of order”?
> A taxi driver at two or three o’clock in the morning, when somebody has a few beers on them and the system goes down. That’s where the issues will come up. Speaking to members and taxi drivers, that’s the problem that taxis foresee,” he said.
Preparing the excuses early and letting us know about it.
“McGuinness said the vast majority of taxi drivers already offer card payments.”
Jesus I must be ferocious unlucky to have never once managed to land a taxi with a card machine so.
If taxi drivers are giving out about getting no say prices increases, they should be reminded that the metered fare is the **maximum** chargeable fare. They can always accept less if they want.
More expensive? Holy shit
What are we going to do with the bumper tax revenue though?
Card is welcome but I guarantee you there will be a lot of out-of-service card machines or else they’ll just tell you to piss off.
Well, won’t be getting taxi’s anymore
Lads, if any drivers try the “machine is broken trick”, most of the apps have a pay-by-card option even if you haven’t used the app to get the taxi so they can still accept card.
Way to kill taxis. Uber and Lyft will jump in
Lol, 12% increase is probably nothing if it means they have to start accurately reporting their income and paying tax on it.
For me personally, taxi is probably one of the only reasons I keep a little cash at home. I don’t even carry it around with me unless I know there’s a chance I’ll need the taxi. Once card machines become compulsory in taxis, they can forget about most of their cash fares.
Well we need some later bus times so. Everything ending before midnight isn’t giving us a. Alternative to the already crazy prices
Must explain why some lad wouldnt take me home for the typical 20eur fare the weekend and I had to fork out 30 and he wouldnt turn meter on. This after waving down taxis all over town for a solid 40 minutes…..fucking what a shit show of a City we live in…its turning into a free for all all round
No longer need to ask if they accept card. If you get to your destination and the card machine is broken, then it’s free.
Even if they must accept card, you bet that it will take ten times the length of time to get a taxi on freenow than if you offer cash on it.
Yesterday I got a taxi, meter said 8.80, I asked to pay by card. Was charged 10 :/
> while a further 1% fare increase was being provided **to cover the cost of facilitating cashless payments**.
Shouldn’t it be more like 21%, then? :v
The taxis wanted 15% so they are not happy!
And is accepting card a bad thing? It’s time the Irish taxi realised they need to step up coz when you go to another country where you have Uber and other services, you realised that Ireland is as always, Uber far behind the rest…got the joke? Uber far….
Taxis were already extortion but I guess with fuel prices consistently so high it makes sense for them to go up, too bad they’re stay up long after fuel prices settle down.
I taught all taxis have been accepting card for a awhile now. I haven’t paid a taxi in cash in about a year
And this is why we need proper uber with private cars to give some healthy competition and reduce gouging..
Requiring card payments is a no brainer… cost increases make sense since it costs more for them to operate.
All drivers needing to accept card is good. I had a few times I grabbed a cab off the street only to find they only took cash and it was a hassle that made me avoid dealing with them for awhile actually.
So the g0vt really do be rolling out the no cash regime
Hi Everyone. I’m a Taxi driver. I have had card payment option for a long time. For all of you thinking we are all Tax dodgers it’s completely untrue. In order to renew our licences every year we must have a Tax clearance certificate. In the process of filing my return for 2021. You can’t do anything without tax clearance within the industry. Expenses are massive. Just July & August I’ve spent near €2.5k on maintenance and repairs. €200.00 on meter update & verification. We pay VAT everyday on fuel maintenance everything. So please keep that in mind.
12% increase in fares but they’re all going to become 100% visible, which means 100% taxable.
In some cases that will mean a €20 fare which previously would have gone into the pocket is now €22.40, but with usc, prsi and income tax, he might only see about €13.
It might be a good idea to bring €15 in such a scenario and offer cash for a reduced fare.
Now I know why scooters are so popular
All taxi drivers earn less than €8,000 as far as revenue are told.
Improve public transport you morons
It’s funny seeing all the hate for taxi drivers when there is a serious shortage of us on the roads & lots of complaints about the lack of drivers.