Can’t read Greek. Does this mean everywhere has to have the option? Or card is the only option?
@psportugal look at that 👀👀
The article looks like all greek to me.. Don’t understand a bit..
they should do this in the french part of belgium, you can literally only pay your dentist with cash its so bad
What Greek should do (besides having an electronic payment option everywhere) is implementing fines for those shops/vendors who refuse to accept card/electronic payment.
Sometimes shops have payment terminals, but they say: “Oh, sorry, it’s not working, cash only”. This way they try to avoid taxes.
Anyways, Greece is mostly a cashless society after the lockdowns. You can pay almost everywhere with a card/apple or Google pay. Those who don’t accept or try to justify not using a card, usually are those who tax evade.
I was kinda shocked last week when I traveled to Italy and the restaurant I ate in Milano, informed me that they don’t accept card payments.
Good job Greece. I hate how Albania is almost cash only with some small exceptions.
Germans on suicide watch
I bellieve biggest problem with taxing is not VAT though payment. But lack of records to inheritance and wealth rug sweeping. Like it’s already ridiculous in Turkey where you lie and manipulate retirement days, payments. Fake filing of family members land, possessions etc. They need to focus heavily on that. Even tho it will piss off the voters. Turkeys 80 million and rugged. But Greece has more potential small population to crack down on it
The problem isn’t the unavailability of the POS terminals, the problem is the very high VAT percentage.
For instance, I can go to the dentist or even a restaurant (basically any business that isn’t a big chain) and get quoted to pay X amount with card, or X-24% with cash. For most people the choice is easy.
Good on you, Greece. Unpopular choices have to be made, otherwise you keep threading on the spot. I remember ten or so years ago how backwards much of Greece’s infrastructure was. Now, you can almost do anything with your phone and in front of your computer. Now if Greece could also create a reliable rail system, they could also do away with the heavy reliance of cars.
As a Greek dual citizen, this is great news. Not for tax evasion per se, but the more traceable a lot of these transactions become, the more the public are protected from being scalped. My Greek is pretty broken but I never tell anyone I can understand it ok, and I’ve 100% been ripped off for being a tourist before.
Seems like the Greek population has finally accepted that politically difficult decisions need to be made.
Hopefully we’ll come to the same realization soon enough.
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Can’t read Greek. Does this mean everywhere has to have the option? Or card is the only option?
@psportugal look at that 👀👀
The article looks like all greek to me.. Don’t understand a bit..
they should do this in the french part of belgium, you can literally only pay your dentist with cash its so bad
What Greek should do (besides having an electronic payment option everywhere) is implementing fines for those shops/vendors who refuse to accept card/electronic payment.
Sometimes shops have payment terminals, but they say: “Oh, sorry, it’s not working, cash only”. This way they try to avoid taxes.
Anyways, Greece is mostly a cashless society after the lockdowns. You can pay almost everywhere with a card/apple or Google pay. Those who don’t accept or try to justify not using a card, usually are those who tax evade.
I was kinda shocked last week when I traveled to Italy and the restaurant I ate in Milano, informed me that they don’t accept card payments.
Good job Greece. I hate how Albania is almost cash only with some small exceptions.
Germans on suicide watch
I bellieve biggest problem with taxing is not VAT though payment. But lack of records to inheritance and wealth rug sweeping. Like it’s already ridiculous in Turkey where you lie and manipulate retirement days, payments. Fake filing of family members land, possessions etc. They need to focus heavily on that. Even tho it will piss off the voters. Turkeys 80 million and rugged. But Greece has more potential small population to crack down on it
The problem isn’t the unavailability of the POS terminals, the problem is the very high VAT percentage.
For instance, I can go to the dentist or even a restaurant (basically any business that isn’t a big chain) and get quoted to pay X amount with card, or X-24% with cash. For most people the choice is easy.
Good on you, Greece. Unpopular choices have to be made, otherwise you keep threading on the spot. I remember ten or so years ago how backwards much of Greece’s infrastructure was. Now, you can almost do anything with your phone and in front of your computer. Now if Greece could also create a reliable rail system, they could also do away with the heavy reliance of cars.
As a Greek dual citizen, this is great news. Not for tax evasion per se, but the more traceable a lot of these transactions become, the more the public are protected from being scalped. My Greek is pretty broken but I never tell anyone I can understand it ok, and I’ve 100% been ripped off for being a tourist before.
Seems like the Greek population has finally accepted that politically difficult decisions need to be made.
Hopefully we’ll come to the same realization soon enough.