Cashless restaurants and retailers would no longer be able to operate in the nation’s capital under legislation approved Tuesday by the D.C. Council, one of several business measures advanced ahead of a year-end deadline.
After heated debate, lawmakers also backed measures requiring employers to reinstate workers who lost jobs during the coronavirus pandemic and allowing company insiders who report tax fraud to get a share of the reclaimed taxes.
The legislation on cashless businesses, first proposed in 2018 by council member David Grosso (I-At Large), is part of a growing resistance against a movement that critics says shuts out people without bank accounts as well as undocumented immigrants.
San Francisco, New York City and Philadelphia have recently started requiring retailers to take cash payments, as do the states of New Jersey and Massachusetts.
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