Professionals rarely accept card payments

Thousands of self-employed professionals, such as lawyers, accountants, engineers, electricians, doctors and taxi drivers, have installed card terminals to comply with legislation, but hardly ever use them.

Kathimerini has seen the statistics banks have collected regarding the use of card terminals by key professional categories such as the above, which are associated with high tax evasion rates, and the low use recorded is highly indicative that the tax dodging is continuing.

The professional categories with the lowest use of installed terminals are those of lawyers and engineers, as 90 percent of them did not make a single transaction using their terminals throughout 2017. They are followed by electricians, with 80 percent of them accepting cash only, and accountants, with a respective rate of 70 percent. The respective rate for doctors is relatively lower, at 38...