[brador]

It's also used by those business as a way to avoid paying the full taxes owed by underdeclaring profits. Notice the trend of high cash countries and low tax revenue/struggling underclass. Spain, Portugal, Eastern Europe, Greece.

[thesimon]

Restaurants in Germany as well. When you ask them why they don't accept cards, they usually say something like "I don't like government surveillance" and you know whats up.

Some countries in the EU started requiring cash registers and receipts and some merchants were able to make some quite good revenue improvements in the month they were introduced :)