Between me and my family I've had three visits to three different medical consultants recently. They were all in clinics in private hospitals and all of them asked for payment by cash (or cheque). Since I no longer have cheques I had to get cash. Why is it I can pay my hairdresser using a card but so many consultants won't accept them? Is it purely because it's cheaper? A hairdresser surely earns far less than a doctor but they make it as easy as possible to pay despite any costs. I'm just curious to know is there a particular reason.
Sounds a bit like dealing with a builder for a small job, there's the price and the price for cash. Would it by any chance be tax related and should you ask for a discount for cash?
Doubt its tax related, they issue receipts and invoices.
Doctors are no more or less likely to evade tax than plumbers, carpenter, solicitors, teachers doing grinds, barristers or anyone else. They are people, no more or less honest than any other people.I'm a doctor and I asked a few colleagues about this before. The majority said they do take cards. The ones who don't said that it's a combination of no demand (which I find hard to believe) and that having a card machine is too expensive (which I explained it no longer is).
And then there are tax evaders in every walk of life.
and it's difficult if not impossible to argue that they're seeing a large number of patients for free.
Funny that you mention that. I found out last year that a colleague of mine reserves about a quarter of his private practice for public patients who are on long waiting lists. He sees them for €1(!) in his private rooms at his own expense (he still has to pay secretary, etc.) and no-one knows about it except close friends. His father also did this.
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