ATO (tax office) payments by credit card

[KLN]

yes,have had 2 followup phone calls to ATO, from when i accidentally paid by Oct BAS twice, just before the halve in Altitutude points...... will need to follow up this week again. they seem to think that it's fine to keep until my next BAS to save me paying again......"computer says NO!"

 

[lukelegend]

Most go Amex because that generates many more points per dollar but at a higher cost.

looks like the commonwealth bank diamond Amex card gets 3 points per dollar, and paying on the ATOwebsite the fee is 1.45% for American Express payments.

and the Diamond Master card gets 1.25 points per dollar spent, but the ATO credit card fee is reduced to 0.42% for VISA and MasterCard payments.

And at the moment the Commonwealth bank had a double point promotion with MasterCard for the rest of this month...

This is hurting my little brain, can someone work out which card to use whilst knowing the above?

Can I even use the Commbank Diamond Amex card for ATO payments? or is it just MasterCard that is still good?

 

[VAG newbie]

looks like the commonwealth bank diamond Amex card gets 3 points per dollar, and paying on the ATOwebsite the fee is 1.45% for American Express payments.

and the Diamond Master card gets 1.25 points per dollar spent, but the ATO credit card fee is reduced to 0.42% for VISA and MasterCard payments.

And at the moment the Commonwealth bank had a double point promotion with MasterCard for the rest of this month...

This is hurting my little brain, can someone work out which card to use whilst knowing the above?

Can I even use the Commbank Diamond Amex card for ATO payments? or is it just MasterCard that is still good?

Nobody can answer you that question as the double point promo will only be awarded in Feb. Assuming you do get the double points, I would say, for 0.45% and 1.25 pt it's definitely much better value.

My experience with these "double point" promos has never been smooth. They always only award the standard points and requires a bit of chasing up to get the double points. These has happened across several FFPs including Krisflyer, Asia Miles and Velocity.

I personally price the points more than the 1.45% so I used diamond Amex to save the trouble of chasing the points if it's not awarded later. It will be hard to chase as bank's standing is no award points for government charges.

But you never know, it might just get credited without any incidence. If you are willing to take the chances, it's definitely better value to pay by MC.

BTW, you only have 4 days to decide...

 

[Newk]

looks like the commonwealth bank diamond Amex card gets 3 points per dollar, and paying on the ATOwebsite the fee is 1.45% for American Express payments.

and the Diamond Master card gets 1.25 points per dollar spent, but the ATO credit card fee is reduced to 0.42% for VISA and MasterCard payments.

And at the moment the Commonwealth bank had a double point promotion with MasterCard for the rest of this month...

This is hurting my little brain, can someone work out which card to use whilst knowing the above?

Can I even use the Commbank Diamond Amex card for ATO payments? or is it just MasterCard that is still good?

you need to do your own calculations and it relies on how many points and how you value and plan to use the points. There are many discussions about this on the site

also I suspect that you need to look more closely at how CBA on-transfer their points

 

[lukelegend]

Nobody can answer you that question as the double point promo will only be awarded in Feb. Assuming you do get the double points, I would say, for 0.45% and 1.25 pt it's definitely much better value.
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Isn't the standard point value 1.25 per dollar on the commbank Diamond MasterCard? And with double points this month it would make it 2.5 points per dollar??

 

[amaroo]

I've been pumping the Dia MC since it came back to life on the 1st Jan .... in 6 days time I'll be back rotating between DIA Amex and ANZ Black.

 

[VAG newbie]

Nobody can answer you that question as the double point promo will only be awarded in Feb. Assuming you do get the double points, I would say, for 0.45% and 1.25 pt it's definitely much better value.
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Isn't the standard point value 1.25 per dollar on the commbank Diamond MasterCard? And with double points this month it would make it 2.5 points per dollar??

We are talking about VA points, not diamond award points. It's 1/2 as much. So normally is 0.625 VA point, and 1.25 VA points with promotion. I only talk about FFP. No point redeem toasters with award points.

 

[amaroo]

We are talking about VA points, not diamond award points. It's 1/2 as much. So normally is 0.625 VA point, and 1.25 VA points with promotion. I only talk about FFP. No point redeem toasters with award points.

and, QFFP

 

[infinity]

ATO double points MC has worked fine for diamond
Will revert to ANZ black and CBA diamond Amex:MC from 1/2/15

 

[cove]

Over in Perth I am having a WOW of a time but no doublers.

 

[infinity]

Over in Perth I am having a WOW of a time but no doublers.

What's the conversion rate to QF Cove?

 

[cove]

One point per dollar at the moment. Mrscove has more points than me so I am doing a catch up.

 

[cove]

Using two cards over the next 4 weeks with the second one being WBC Kris Plat Amex so that gets us up front.

 

[jhuyn005]

Can anyone confirm if Citibank Signature is working for OSR NSW Land Tax payments? Got ~ 60k to pay.

Otherwise will have to use ANZ Black...

Thx!

 

[cove]

That is a yes from less than 3 months ago.

 

[jhuyn005]

That is a yes from less than 3 months ago.

Awesome, thanks Cove. You're a wealth of knowledge.

 

[albyd]

Prestige Worked this week.

 

[ninja-tim]

That is a yes from less than 3 months ago.

Whats the $t conversion rate for land tax payments? is it $1:1pt (or whatever for signature)?
Anyone know if Citibank will work for SRO?

 

[diningdecadence]

Whats the $t conversion rate for land tax payments? is it $1:1pt (or whatever for signature)?
Anyone know if Citibank will work for SRO?

i'm sure i'm missing something here but post directly above? which state is SRO?

 

[cove]

It worked for me ninja-tim and I got the 1.33 points on my Citi card version.