I think you can easily say that's about the only reason (plus the Christmas salary). By the way I have seen worse cases, restaurants where the legal 10% is used to pay a reasonable 'salary' to an office clerk of the restaurant (meaning the waiters are paying the salary of the office clerk). All to avoid high salaries, high TSS, high sueldos navide?os and high prestaciones).
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How strictly are businesses monitored?
I got news for you:
The food stamp program no longer issues paper based money to people, they get the EBT card, which in itself is a bank end generated account for that particular client.
They put both cash and food stamp benefits on the same card account, but depending on which they use or need, the users are able to either pay at the counter with the stamps portion or the cash as a debit card. They can also access the cash benefits from any ATM. For a while now, payments for rent have been carried out by direct deposit to the home owners/RE principals and not provided directly to the beneficiaries.
The same in the DR with the BonoLuz, BonoGas and food benefits cards...
It's happening much faster than you care to notice!
I know about the cards...... did you read where I said hey have been on this since the '90's?
Thats what we're all saying here--- it might take a while.
BTW, they still issue paper checks too --- so don't try to give the impression that the US Gov't is cashless -- It ain't.
Your statement is misleading in that sense.
Try this one ( a la Hilary Clinton )... the Canadian Health System is a smooth running machine.
Is that misleading?
Yes, and no. It runs smoother in some provinces than others, and in some districts than others. Rural areas suffer. Example my brother lives in a rural area with a small 10 bed hospital - no surgeons. He requires wrist surgery. Six month wait to see a specialist, another six month wait for surgery. Was scheduled for surgery in June in Vancouver . Fly down to Vancouver and find out next day no surgery as doctor is sick. Surgery rescheduled for October. Cost to my brother $600 for flight and hotel. Cost of Surgery when it happens - to my brother $$$ Zero. Cost of rehab - Zero, except for medications and any brace he might need.
Altho' I don't live there permanently any more, Bob, I know all about it.
ON is closing beds - whole floors- just to control costs.... it's not perfect.
You can die waiting your turn - literally.
Need to be like UK - embrace your doctor in your social circle - better to have a friend than a doctor and perfect if they are one and the same.
ON is closing beds - whole floors- just to control costs.... it's not perfect.
You can die waiting your turn - literally.
Need to be like UK - embrace your doctor in your social circle - better to have a friend than a doctor and perfect if they are one and the same.
Even in US many cash business keep two separate books. a lot of gas stations have gone back to two different prices one for cash and other for cards and they point to card transactions fees.... I'd say yeah the "WINK" fees. And now it seems like many private owned business have gone back to if you pay in cash I'll give you "extra discount" plus without sales tax approach as well. So it happens every where you go but only in DR it seems like government isn't on your ass if you say there were 30 business transaction today but I am going to report 10 transaction, and out of those 10, 90% paid in cards and only 10% paid in cash, this is what I've heard...
Beginning March, 2013 the federal government will no longer issue paper checks. One must have a bank account or they will receive an EBT/debit card as payment.
So, thats about 25 yrs since "the launch".......
I'm not ridiculing it , just pointing out the difficulty of implementation.
I don't even want to compare the competency of the two governments - RD and US.
I'm not ridiculing it , just pointing out the difficulty of implementation.
I don't even want to compare the competency of the two governments - RD and US.
Thinking out loud.... have ever tried to 'zero out' one of those debit cards? Not easy.
They'll just cash them at the check casher's ATM... which may be less regulated than the check casher !!
Why the check cashers' ATM ?? - b/c they take that cash and pay their bills - immediately, before they burn thru what little is left after that.
Then they play the lottery, then cigarettes, then bus passes....... not always in that order.
They are world's best budgeters.... I've seen it firsthand.
They'll just cash them at the check casher's ATM... which may be less regulated than the check casher !!
Why the check cashers' ATM ?? - b/c they take that cash and pay their bills - immediately, before they burn thru what little is left after that.
Then they play the lottery, then cigarettes, then bus passes....... not always in that order.
They are world's best budgeters.... I've seen it firsthand.
Well the Politicians thats who. They all promise to lower taxes until they realize that they can get some of that tax money to thier kids consulting company and thier friends construction company and thier wife gets a job working for a govt contractor even though shes a retard. Then all the politicians give their cousins jobs and they form unions and want more money and benefits and early retirement and then we need to raise taxes LOL. Same story all over the world.
Good luck banning the often used credit card use fees. I can hope that will happen. I am sure it is already against the agreements they have with the credit card companies is it not?
How are they going to clean up the credit card processing fraud that hits so many people that visit the island? If the DR goes cashless and tourists can only pay buy using credit/debit cards then the DR's reputation will be in jeopardy if things go on as they are now with foreign credit cards.
Fraud with the EBT cards is rampant. A few months ago in my area (Daytona Beach) three businesses were closed down for SNAP (food benefit) fraud totalling $2 million over a six month span. The schemes work like this:
Store doubles or triples the price of beer and cigarettes and rings up the transaction as a food transaction.
Store outright buys the EBT card for pennies on the dollar and reuses the card at a wholesaler to stock their store.
Store rings up bogus transactions and gives cash to the card holder.
I can't imagine how a benefits program using electronic cards in DR would work...I definitely see the creation of card "pawn" shops.
I left the check cashing business a few years ago but I see how that scam would work.
Besides that risk, the welfare recipient - that kind of person- loves to have a roll of money, not a piece of plastic.
I recounted here how one of my customers asked for nothing larger than a $20 when cashing a $900 check.
He'd pull that wad every chance he got !!
Not that the Gov't cares about the recipient
I agree the system will be problematic - it is today.
People steal the welfare checks from the mailbox, fake the ID and cash them.
We had them mailed to our store, or Dierect Deposited into a special account then the recipient came to get his $$
It'll be very difficult to implement in RD.
did nanyone think how this would effect the propina for the police? maybe the will have to start carrying swipe machines around?lol.. there is a scam for every system ever invented,just give it time,,lots and lots of time for the DR to implement this
That isn't that far fetched...Anyone can buy a Square Card Reader and swipe credit cards directly into their smartphone. It's the rage these days.
i have nothing against taxes. i am happy to pay taxes. all my life i paid taxes like a good girl. my only pain is that taxes go the wrong way. i want to give my 25% of salary (or whatever they charge now) to hospitals, police, road maintenance, fire department, teachers' wages. but i know that a huge portion is lost: government salaries, their idiotic ideas and investments.