Taxi drivers not accepting card payment

Taxis don't like paying income tax so most only declare the bare minimum like 16k.

Rest then is cash in hand and tax free therefore cash is king. Taxi lobby will make sure they can hold unto this as long as possible.

This. And it’s not just taxi drivers. A couple of months after the first lockdown hit, Revenue realised that the income tax take had fallen slightly but not by the predicted amounts. It appears that many who are self employed weren’t paying to begin with. If a digital euro comes in, it will be a lot harder to evade tax.

Can you show me where the UK legislation is that says it is compulsory for taxis to take card payments?

The black cabs in London have to and maybe a few other cities, but I can assure you that there is no blanket regulations that says taxis must accept card payment in the UK.

And from very recent experience, it certainly does not apply in Leeds or Leicester.

But in order to do business, most taxi drivers here and in the UK accept card payments.

In that case it seems mental that the driver has the ability to take secondary payments in that way. As I said, it wasn't added to the fare, it was an entirely separate transaction I had absolutely no part in.

It is not a new thing and Irish taxis are not the inly ones doing it.

what could be the solutions to stop this? Mystery shoppers?

They don't want to pay tax so wont accept cards. It's weird how they're pretty much the only legit businesses that are allowed avoid paying tax, Revenue are usually pretty on the ball with things but they've let the taxi lot away with this forever. I remember being in Germany in 2006 and you could pay taxis with cards.

This is a 1st world problem.So,chillax take it easy,breath out,count to 10,do it again.In the meantime try to experience the wonder of holding cash in your hands.Lots of people on this planet never will have that privilege/right

Not sure what you mean,I'm not a taxi man but I use Sumup to take payments from customers,it charges me 1.67%,so on a €15 taxi fare that would be approximately 20 cents.Also in most cases that cost is absorbed by the person taking the payment.

Again I'm not sure what happened and don't really understand the post but my guess is your issue is with the taxi man and not the payment terminal provider.

Taxi drivers do not usually wear slim fit Hugo Boss suits and therefore are in need of excessive coinage to use as ballast for their pockets. That is why they don't like accepting cards.

Not sure what's confusing about my post, tbh. I paid a c.€15 taxi fare on my card (contactless). When I checked my online banking the next day, there was a second SumUp transaction for €5 a minute or two after the first one.

Maybe the driver did pull a fast one but if he did it's because SumUp somehow allowed him to complete a second transaction on my card without me present.

Sumup are not at fault for that, it's very likely the taxi driver just pulled a fast one because he wanted the cash originally.

It's very likely the 5 euro transaction was MOTO/Card not present which nearly any card terminal can do. There is no security for these transactions, you'll win the chargeback if you raise it, even if it's just for 5 euro.

The merchant (taxi) will also likely to incur a chargeback handling fee.

You said " the surcharges are eye watering" in relation to paying by card,in this case in relation to Sumup,that confused me as I use SumUp everyday and that makes no sense.

I think it's been explained to you now by a few posters that is not the case.

From what you've said here you were ripped off for a fiver by a dodgy taxi man,that seems to be the long and the short of it.

Talk of eye watering surcharges is nothing to do with it.

Well then youre going to run into random problems like this.

Carry some cash future boy.

Perhaps a taxi driver can tell us but I don't think the journey is recorded in the meter if the fare is cancelled rather than ended. The journey has to be ended for a receipt to be printed.

Funnily enough, mcgregors dad used to work as a taxi driver.

Conor mcgregor....classy lad! On a more relevant note, I try to use free now as much as I can as if you lose something(which I often do), there is w greater possibility of getting it back. I’ve usually had good experience with free niw There was one issue whereby I got in a taxi and he immediately ran into a cyclist 2 seconds after picking me up and his mirror was broken so he wouldn’t bring me to where I wanted to go, he then charged me for the 2 second journey including g the 2 euro pick up charge. I also had an uber driver make it look like I was in the car and drove the journey without me in the car and I was charged something like 30 quid. I try not to use uber anymore. Unfortunately you do get the occasional scumbag taxi driver, most are great though.