03/10/2026
If there’s one thing that needs to change, it’s this sort of double standard from those currently in power in our country.
From 1 December, the ATO will no longer accept card payments for tax bills.
Why?
Because the ATO has decided it doesn’t want the cost of card merchant fees
Yet businesses across Australia are now unable to add a card surcharge and are expected to absorb those very same card-processing costs themselves.
So apparently the ATO can simply say, “No, we’re not wearing that cost,” but the butcher, mechanic, café,,pub hairdresser, tradie and every other business out there just has to suck it up and add another expense to the growing pile. businesses are already battling wages, fuel, insurance, power, rates, compliance and countless other rising costs while continuing to employ people and service their local communities.
If absorbing card fees isn’t acceptable for the ATO, why should it automatically be acceptable for every business in Australia?
The hypocrisy is pretty hard to miss.
Maybe the answer is simpler than all of this.
💵 BRING BACK CASH