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Anger over taxi receipt machines

Taxi drivers are refusing to give passengers receipts for their journeys until receipt machines they have been forced to install are scrapped. Cabbies say that if they give printed receipts to customers they will be less likely to give tips and also that the machines cost thousands to rent.

The new law introduced by the Transport for London (TfL) Public Carriage Office came into effect on 1 January. It was introduced after complaints that some drivers refused to give receipts.

TfL's Roy Ellis said: "There is no intention to deter the recognition of good service by giving a tip. "There is provision on the receipt for a tip to be written on if that is the will of the passenger and we have no objection to that whatsoever. There may be occasions where a written receipt is more appropriate."

TfL say the machines will make it easier for cabbies to give receipts. Receipt information must include as a minimum the date of issue, time of issue, metered fare, metered extras, and total fare.

TfL has the power to force cabbies to give receipts but says it will only do this if complaints rise.

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Happy to be legit.

im always happy to give a written receipt to anyone who asks, including tip if they so wish.

i think the issue here has more to do with the machine recording their total days earnings for income tax purposes rather than losing out on tips.

Someone said to me before Christmas can I have a recipt please? No problem was the reply, make the recipt out for £22, here's me thinking I'd got a good tip of £7, the woman took all her change and duly walked away, I wound my window down and said if they phone up how much shall I say you paid?? Look on her face priceless

I always write my receipts in big red felt-tip pen, so the buggers can't fiddle it.

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IDFIMH

ahh so someone fiddling their expenses perhaps a reason reciept printers were brought in then?

regards

Captain cab

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

I dont,
I think it has to do more with those tossers who either wrote the recipts on back of cards fraudulently, or those and we must have all had them the fare comes to £40, and they ask for a reciept for £50.

the whole industry is full of it.

well for those of us who like to keep our income a little private,,lol,,there is nothing stopping us to put a different callsign on our reciepts when writing one out,,

Trigot its attitudes like that and comments like that that cause this expense, and heartache

if you wanna fiddle your tax, keep it to yourself, and not in anyway the public domain, and dont suggest "everyone is at it"

there are too many playing that game

and cause these problems

Here Nidge,next time you post,can you take that scary mask off.
Frightening.