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Danish cafe fined 40,000 kroner for refusing cash

A café in Copenhagen must pay a hefty fine after refusing to accept cash payments from customers.

Published: 25 November 2022 13:30 CET
Danish cafe fined 40,000 kroner for refusing cash
A Danish cafe broke trade rules by refusing to accept cash. Photo by Emre on Unsplash

The café, Original Coffee, refused for four months to accept cash, broadcaster DR writes.

Copenhagen City Court rules on Friday that it thereby was in breach of rules protecting the use of cash under Danish law.

The state ombudsman for consumers filed a report against the café with police. It was found to have broken the law and must therefore pay a 40,000-krone penalty.

Under Danish law, businesses must accept cash between 6am and 10pm unless the transaction is remote – for example online – or at an unstaffed outlet such as a self-service petrol station.

The café said it had chosen not to accept cash because of the Covid-19 pandemic as well as a lack of change and the risk of break-ins. It reintroduced cash payments on February 1st this year.

It is unclear whether the business will appeal against the decision.

READ ALSO: Denmark will eventually be cash-free: expert

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Denmark uses new method to collect debt from public

Last year saw Denmark’s public debt collection agency Gældsstyrelsen collect a record amount from people with debts to the state.

Published: 20 February 2023 16:29 CET
Denmark uses new method to collect debt from public

A total of 12.6 billion kroner was collected last year according to the agency, which is a part of the Danish Tax Authority (Skattestyrelsen).

A new and more efficient recovery system, termed PSRM, can be credited for the amount, the agency said in a statement.

The system allows the agency to deduct from debitors’ wages and tax rebates in order to clear the debt.

“We have created a collection with strong resources to recover the debt,” Gældsstyrelsen director Anne-Sofie Jensen said in the statement.

“With our new system and our many skilled workers we are moving step by step in the right direction towards bringing down debt to the state,” she said.

Last year the system saw the tax authority bring in 5.2 billion kroner in overdue repayments.

The amount was notably lower in 2020, when it reached 2.2 billion kroner.

“The annual result shows that we are succeeding with our core task,” Jensen said.

“We are recovering a lot of the debt that public creditors have failed to demand from members of the public and businesses before the debt was transferred to us,” she said.

“But we are also aware that there are still challenges we must overcome in the coming years so we keep our working gloves on,” she said.

The amount of debt recovered by the state has increased year-on-year since 2016.

However, the total owed by individuals and businesses has also increased during that period.

That debt was estimated at 152 billion kroner in total in 2022.

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