Media appearances in August covered the presentation of our new study against the restriction of cash payments, healthcare, is a new economic recession coming, and the accuracy of drug tests used by the traffic police. The latest economic analysis of the EKIP - "Regulations on cash payments and their effects" presents evidence that ...
More »It's time to remove the cap on cash payments
Two years after the last attempt to remove the cap on cash payments, it is time to raise the topic again. But this time, not to remove it, but to increase it, or better yet, to remove it completely. The Expert Club for Economics and Politics recently published a report, …
More »Cash Payment Regulations and Their Effects
| Full text of the analysis | A number of proven patterns in economic science indicate that restricting cash payments would not have a significant effect on the size of the shadow economy. The latest report by the European Commission on the effectiveness of restrictions on cash payments in the European Union unequivocally confirms that …
More »The government's lies about cash payment limits
Author: Mihail Krastev A few months after the Ministry of Finance's planned restriction of cash payments to 5,000 leva failed to pass parliament, the finance ministry is now trying to push through its idea again. This time, the attempt to limit citizens' financial freedom has been inserted into a proposal for change...
More »3 reasons why cash payments should NOT be restricted
Without even waiting for three months to pass since the last rejection of this bill, the Ministry of Finance this week again introduced a proposal to tighten the limit on the maximum amount of cash payments from 10,000 to 5,000 leva. And of course, the same song is being sung again - ...
More »Cash regulation is a gross interference in the free market
A few weeks ago, the parliament adopted a bill on first reading, which aims to limit the amount of all cash payments to 1,000 leva by 2019. The adoption of the bill itself is a natural continuation of the worrying trend at the European level to limit cash payments. The imposition of …
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