“Unfair”: Opposition calls on government to reverse ATO credit payment ban
The ATO plan to stop accepting credit card payments after November 30 has critics in Canberra, but finding an alternative may prove difficult.
The federal Opposition is calling on the Albanese government to undo the Australian Taxation Office’s decision to stop accepting credit card payments after November 30.
As of October 1, merchants are banned from directly passing the cost of accepting a card payment onto consumers in the form of a surcharge.
The ATO, which previously applied surcharges to credit card payments, will continue accepting that payment type, surcharge-free, for the next eight weeks.
But the tax office said absorbing credit card payment costs past that point would “not be appropriate”, as it would have no choice but to transfer those costs onto the community.
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