Back in the 1960/70s many banks charged businesses when you banked cash. The cost of handling cash was rolled up into the overall bank charges to the business.
My late father used to tell me that when he was in the car trade back then most private purchases paid in cash with company purchases being paid using cheques. He put the rapid expansion of private car ownership to the availability of hire purchase and credit sale agreements that reduced cash handling as finance companies often paid by cheque.
In the last three plus decades we take free personal banking as the norm. Our "free" banking is in reality subsidised by different forms of fees attached to our transactions.
A local Chinese Takeaway has become cash only quite recently, truth be told cash can be a way to avoid paying income tax.
When I used to sell cars to Farmers they would want you to reduce the invoice price and pay the difference in cash.(Floor board/matress money from selling eggs etc privately) My late boss always like some cash of this type - no surprise when he was paying 95p in the pound including surtax.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_taxation_in_the_United_Kingdom
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