Stopping Cash payments

[roker]

Now that there seem to be a black economy again, they are trying to stop cash transactions. So after the cheques have been phased out, how do we pay a contractor?
I do not see any builders, plumbers, carpenters etc. carrying a machine to take card payments!

 

[Mpsox]

Cheques aren't acheduled to be phased out until 2016 at the earliest and the industry freely admits there is no plan to achieve that, it's purely intended to get a discussion going. In the UK, whilst there is a plan to have them gone by 2018, it is subject to suitable alternatives being in place, if there isn't an alternative, cheques keep going

 

[Jim2007]

Perhaps like the rest of Europe - direct bank transfers using the IBAN....

Jim.