Cash vs. digital

[Maik]

Gov’t takes aim at cash transactions

The government and the country’s central and commercial banks agreed on Wednesday on a strategic plan for the development of digital transactions and a drastic cut in cash transactions that will be drafted within 30 days.

The reduction of cash transactions is turning into an immediate priority, whose attainment is seen taking place both through the expansion of credit card use and via online transactions between tradesmen, which seem to have gone out of fashion again. It is common practice among traders to break payments down into amounts below 500 euros, or, in the case of regular taxpayers, below 1,000 euros, which are the minimum levels for compulsory electronic transactions respectively.

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