Sleazy Card Tricks 0
Virginia has eliminated state income tax refund checks in favor of debit cards.
When my mother’s accountant was preparing her final tax returns, she (the accountant) called me for bank information; she told me that direct deposit was preferable to the debit cards because the accounting firm’s clients had been having “no end of problems” with the debit cards. According to her, one of the problems is that some merchants are refusing to accept the cards. (What about people who don’t have bank accounts? Apparently, they are stuck.)
The writer of this letter to the editor of the Roanoke Times outlines some more of the problems.
It’s difficult to see how this was anything but yet another “privatization” scam to skim public funds into corporate coffers while providing poorer service for more-er money.
