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Cash no longer accepted for paying taxes
Last Updated: Friday, May 4, 2007 | 8:36 AM AT
CBC News

Ottawa will no longer accept cash payments from people paying their taxes at service counters across the country.

The Canada Revenue Agency says it will still accept cash payments made through banks, however. Service counters will continue to accept cheque and debit payments.

The agency says it made the change because the amount of people who pay by cash is so small.

Of the seven per cent of taxpayers who make payments at the service counters, less than one per cent pay by cash, said Revenue Canada spokesperson Heather Cameron.

"It comes down to the fact � that there's so few people that are actually making their payments in cash now," said Cameron.

Patricia Farren says she was shocked when she paid her income taxes at a Canada Revenue office in Saint John and was told it would be the final time she could pay by cash.

Farren says she was so angered by the decision, she wrote her local MLA and Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

"The idea that our money in our country is not going to be accepted by our country is unacceptable. I do not have another government that I can go shop with," she said.


Unbelievable!! ARGHHHH!

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It seems like that's also a way that the country to track where payments originate. Unless you're using a money order, using credit cards or bank checks allows the government to have direct evidence of a persons financial resources. For instance, if you pay with a corporate card or from a corporate account, they can then associate the person with a bank account with which they might not have been officially associated.

It's kind of a stretch in most cases, however, the database society is upon us.. Although in Texas, where I'm from, you can typically pay cash at any government office for whatever services you need..