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Old May 15, 2012 | 8:35 am
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The 10% surcharge is sufficiently rude that I won't tip. No credit card company charges anything like that as a fee so it is purely to fund Dialacab (and partly offset the driver having to pay tax on that bit of income too ).

Not sure I'd consider 10-15% a normal black cab tip. I normally round up to the nearest pound (or the nearest plus one over £15) and am normally thanked genuinely for it.
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