When i go to town for a spend,i like to use cash.Halfway through i sometimes go to special cake shops,they are yummy and very big.So there are two and both refuse to take cash.I don't argue i just walk out.They have lost a cake and coffee sale there and then and more at later dates.So is it illegal to refuse cash.
Can shops legally refuse money.
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roadrash
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according to this , yes they can refuse
https://fullfact.org/online/legal-tender-not-illegal-to-accept/
https://fullfact.org/online/legal-tender-not-illegal-to-accept/
Drago
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Some cavaets, but yes, they can.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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there's a pub in town that's been card only for a good six-eight years now. I suppose it makes balancing the till at the end of each day a lot easier.
WoW.....who would ever have thought it.
A Biker
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Well I find if you eat out then pay in cash they never refuse if you explain that you have no other form of payment
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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Alot of small traders no longer deal with cash. Pain to find a bank/post office to pay in and, of course, the security side. Loads of small traders in Manchester that are card only. If (and its a big if) I have cash on me, I usually ask even the larger establishments if they accept cash. My wife kept some cash back for date nights, but proved pretty useless when we went out as very few accept cash now.
Postie, was is a 'special' cake shop like in Amsterdam ?
Postie, was is a 'special' cake shop like in Amsterdam ?
Smokin Joe
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The newsagents I work in is cash only. Quite a few small businesses in rural areas are the same.
classic33
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Well given that debit cards, and contactless aren’t legal tender in the UK, I'm not surprised.
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/explainers/what-is-legal-tender
There's a lot to be said for keeping cash alive - if you can re-circulate it without being taxed for paying it into the bank it's cheaper than card payments; while of course it keeps the man's nose out of what you're spending and staves off the march towards the nightmarish Chinese model where everything is electronic and your ability to purchase anything can be tracked and turned off at the stroke of a key if you dare to offend the establishment.
Look just beneath the surface at such issues and it starts to reveal how farcical, loaded and intrinsically worthless our system of fiat money really is; and that's even before we've moved onto electronic payments and central-bank-digital-currencies; which push it to a whole new level.
Look just beneath the surface at such issues and it starts to reveal how farcical, loaded and intrinsically worthless our system of fiat money really is; and that's even before we've moved onto electronic payments and central-bank-digital-currencies; which push it to a whole new level.
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All uphill
Still rolling along
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"Simplifies" things with HMRC?
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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That’s so you didn’t see her spend on her date nights when you looked at the bank statements.
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
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I’m always concerned about a cash only business.
My suspicion is that they are dodging tax or worse still using the business for money laundering.
HMRC will know how much money a standard shop will take and any business which is significantly under or over will raise suspicion.
My suspicion is that they are dodging tax or worse still using the business for money laundering.
HMRC will know how much money a standard shop will take and any business which is significantly under or over will raise suspicion.
