In a
new maneuver to try to capture the precious US dollars,
the Cuban regime authorized the deposit of said currency in cash, but only
in accounts opened before November 8, 2004.
The decision was published in the official Gazette This week, clarifying that a 10% lien will be applied to these deposits, except in the case of bank transfers from abroad.
«Upon the entry into force of this Resolution, bank accounts in US dollars opened by natural persons before Resolution No. 80 of October 23, 2004 and after its entry into force, may receive cash deposits in US dollars and the 10% tax applies, ”the document says.
These
accounts, until now, only accepted transfers from abroad and from other
accounts in Cuban banks in convertible pesos (CUC), euros, dollars
Canadians, pounds sterling and Swiss francs, but did not allow
cash deposits of US dollars.
The new one
regulations that will enter into force on January 18, indicates that the holders of
such accounts may withdraw the money in cash but in convertible pesos
(CUC), in Cuban Pesos (CUP) or in the currency that the client chooses.
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This
as long as holding on to the exchange rate imposed by Castroism and if
The bank currently has the necessary cash.
The
Cubans have complained in recent months about the impossibility of extracting
dollars from your accounts because the bank did not have the necessary cash,
so they had to write down a list and wait for them to call them to
perform the extraction
At the end of
Last December, the Central Bank of Cuba (BCC) confirmed that situation, after
report that cash withdrawals can only be made from accounts in
International currencies linked to magnetic cards that the Government
imposed as a procedure to make payments in new currency stores
freely convertible, when the branch where the operation is carried out has
available that physical currency.
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