Card Payment Surcharges Banned in Australia from 2026

[Berlin]

These little shops- well, there’s plenty of competition out there and I personally just drink my Nespresso at home. But even if I had to pay a few cents more- meh.

But the savings at places like my gym or ALDI, they will be huge. Not to mention my personal bug bears, hotels and airline tickets. Very happy to see those pesky surcharges finally gone and Australia just doing what everyone else has always been doing.

I keep repeating myself, yes, but that’s because the discussion on here always moved back to “Whinge, my local coffee shop is prices, this is an absolute catastrophe” without acknowledging that no, this is no catastrophe, just what’s been normal everywhere else on this globe

 

[Seat0B]

You should inform the business why you are leaving.

Yes I will do that. Not sure they will care, but at least they will have the data point.

 

[Pushka]

Trying to explain all this use of ATO to pay advance and current taxes to SO. May hay while the sun shines as it were. Understood as well as the cinema tickets during dsc offers.