ATO (tax office) payments by credit card

[coles525]

Yakpay is easy to use although I can't comment on points vale for ATO spend.

Re EBP - I haven't used it for ages - did they change the 'cant' spend on yourself' rules?

a screen shot of an email someone I know received.

 

[Bell21]

Thanks

 

[coles525]

Email with ebp updates:

 

[Scr77]

Email with ebp updates:

The high value fee is not listed. i wonder what that will be.

 

[Bell21]

The high value fee is not listed. i wonder what that will be.

Yes indeed - that could make a difference - I've emailed ebp, but not expecting any details yet

 

[albyd]

Price competition is good. Wonder if Amex will have to “enhance” MR again soon as a result.

 

[Bell21]

Price competition is good. Wonder if Amex will have to “enhance” MR again soon as a result.

one can only hope...

 

[Doctore1003]

Hey guys, if you accidentally overpay the ATO and request a refund, do they send it to a bank account or via the original payment method (eg. credit card refund)?

 

[maccaisking]

Hey guys, if you accidentally overpay the ATO and request a refund, do they send it to a bank account or via the original payment method (eg. credit card refund)?

I haven't requested a refund through the year, but sometimes I accidentally overpay just before completing my tax and it goes back to the bank account.

 

[lahlee]

Hey guys, if you accidentally overpay the ATO and request a refund, do they send it to a bank account or via the original payment method (eg. credit card refund)?

I've definitely had a payment back into my linked ATO savings account when I accidentally paid the quarterly BAS by credit card for the same account twice. I have 2 companies to look after and I put the wrong code in when doing the second payment, resulting in a double payment for one company, and no payment for the other. Luckily they did not charge interest, I guess they figured they had my funds one way or another. Getting extra points (although with a surcharge) was an unintended bonus.

The little dragon was much appreciated.

 

[cove]

Using my son’s Dragon to pay a pile of ATO this month as we are both pretty loaded with points and miles with nowhere to go.

 

[daft009]

Prepaid our tax using the charge to collect the 4.5% cashback before fees

 

[Radio8tiv]

Using my son’s Dragon to pay a pile of ATO this month as we are both pretty loaded with points and miles with nowhere to go.

did a quick search but couldn’t find it, I’m assuming the dragon is also ok for stamp duty payments via the bpoint portal? Bought another house so will look at maximising point earning.

 

[cove]

Dragon has not mulched on anything that we have paid on it. Our problem is that we had trouble just using the points and miles even before the world stopped flying. Lucky my youngsters still want to use their credit cards to run up points and miles.

 

[cove]

Have to process a pretty big BAS as well as quarterlies. Lucky I don’t get depressed paying it into the big black hole.
Hello Dragon credit cards .....

 

[Obi-run Kenobi]

Have to process a pretty big BAS as well as quarterlies. Lucky I don’t get depressed paying it into the big black hole.
Hello Dragon credit cards .....

Agree. I never thought I could feel good about paying my BAS. Silver linings.

 

[citrusb]

Have to process a pretty big BAS as well as quarterlies. Lucky I don’t get depressed paying it into the big black hole.
Hello Dragon credit cards .....

Still living the dream Cove, paying all those taxes.......like you I'll be glad when we can spend a few points !!!

 

[stevoplaystation]

Have to process a pretty big BAS as well as quarterlies. Lucky I don’t get depressed paying it into the big black hole.
Hello Dragon credit cards .....

just got my statement saying no more points as of 9th Dec 2020.....

 

[Bell21]

just got my statement saying no more points as of 9th Dec 2020.....

please expand?

 

[albyd]

I don’t usually read the notices on my statements, went back and had a look:
WE WILL TREAT ANY TRANSACTION THAT THE CARD SCHEME (VISA OR MASTERCARD) TELLS US IS GOVERNMENT RELATED AS A GOVERNMENT RELATED PAYMENT. FROM 9 DECEMBER 2020, POINTS WILL NO LONGER BE EARNED FOR PURCHASES OR PAYMENTS TO A LOCAL, STATE OR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ENTITY OR GOVERNMENT RELATED AGENCY, INCLUDING TO THE AUSTRALIAN TAX OFFICE, AUSTRALIA POST OR TO MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRIES.

Was bound to happen eventually which is a great shame. Appears to be more wide ranging and will likely include AP payments since everyone else treats them as ‘government’.Guess it’s now onto the payment processors until that gets shut down then. I’m not sure if there’s any value left on points chasing after that.