Spain targets big spenders: New rules for high-value card payments coming in 2025

[John M]

https://euroweeklynews.com/2025/01/...-for-high-value-card-payments-coming-in-2025/

 

[JohnnyDoe]

Dear Spanish comrades, use your credit card to buy a one way flight to anywhere outside the EU and never look back.

 

[Monchip]

How 25 k a year makes you a big spender?

 

[Nicholas Van Orton]

How 25 k a year makes you a big spender?

Because they say so. Period. Same thing transactions over €1,000 in cash are HUUUUUUUUUGE according to them and have thus been banned. It's never about fairness. Iit's never about transparency. Iit's never about tackling fraud. It's about totalitarian control. One step in the Overton window at a time.

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” — Plato

NVO

 

[intlman]

Dear Spanish comrades, use your credit card to buy a one way flight to anywhere outside the EU and never look back.

Exactly, just like @Martin Everson has been saying for years.

 

[providenceventurer]

Because they say so. Period. Same thing transactions over €1,000 in cash are HUUUUUUUUUGE according to them and have thus been banned. It's never about fairness. Iit's never about transparency. Iit's never about tackling fraud. It's about totalitarian control. One step in the Overton window at a time.

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” — Plato

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Just to add to Plato sometimes even good people need to find ways around the law for survival.