ATO (tax office) payments by credit card

[exceladdict]

update on deft via beem it:
registered and payment seemed to have worked despite giving a message at first to the effect of "debit card required for this payment"
will update in a few days once transaction goes through

edit: just realised it might have to wait until statement is generated to check if full points were awarded and no cash advance fees charged

Wow didn't realise beem it accepted cerdit cards now. If deft is an option, looks like my rent arrangements are changing!

Reporting back on observations so far, the payment is being reported to Bankwest (so I assume the same at CBA) as "Miscellaneous Business Services". It also took an extra day compared to usual - my payments to DEFT are usually receipted overnight by the property manager but this took two nights.

So if time is of the essence possibly allow 48hrs for the via-beem-it-deft arrangement.

 

[jbman]

Just an FYI, paid with ANZ credit card and didn’t get points. Looks like the banks are cottoning on…

Full points on ANZ Black from my November statement

 

[exceladdict]

Reporting back on observations so far, the payment is being reported to Bankwest (so I assume the same at CBA) as "Miscellaneous Business Services". It also took an extra day compared to usual - my payments to DEFT are usually receipted overnight by the property manager but this took two nights.

So if time is of the essence possibly allow 48hrs for the via-beem-it-deft arrangement.

I don't think this was in doubt but received confirmation from Bankwest today that it is treated as a purchase, not a cash advance.

Full points on ANZ Black from my November statement

Righto looks like I'm applying for one of those this afternoon!

 

[Mattg]

I'm not sure if anyone has noticed/posted this yet, but the ATO has dropped its surcharge for domestic Visa credit card payments from 0.8% to 0.72%.

 

[PLANT]

Inverse inflation
Classic Fed Government!

 

[oz_mark]

I'm not sure if anyone has noticed/posted this yet, but the ATO has dropped its surcharge for domestic Visa credit card payments from 0.8% to 0.72%.

Weird. Everyone else seems to be upping their visa surcharges!

 

[daft009]

I'm not sure if anyone has noticed/posted this yet, but the ATO has dropped its surcharge for domestic Visa credit card payments from 0.8% to 0.72%.

no uncapped visa cards left iirc?

 

[get me outta here]

@exceladdict, Did you find that yr ANZ Black application did count the ATO payment for the sign on bonus?

Righto looks like I'm applying for one of those this afternoon!

 

[cove]

Seeing we are in WA we are not flying anywhere much at the moment.
The last ATO went on our Amex corporate card and it cost 1.45% for the points. We need a couple of million points and we can get them cheaper than ATO.

 

[exceladdict]

@exceladdict, Did you find that yr ANZ Black application did count the ATO payment for the sign on bonus?

I haven't made any ATO payments with ANZ cards yet sorry.

 

[Obi-run Kenobi]

I've been using BeemIt for all ATO. A little tedious for larger BAS and PAYG but it works well. Full points and no surcharge.

 

[get me outta here]

Just wondering what it actually called that payment? Not a government spend obviously.

Full points on ANZ Black from my November statement

 

[mbeder]

I've been using BeemIt for all ATO. A little tedious for larger BAS and PAYG but it works well. Full points and no surcharge.

Am I correct that you use the BPay option and a CC in beemit for these payments? Does it trigger the usual Visa surcharge?

 

[jakeseven7]

Am I correct that you use the BPay option and a CC in beemit for these payments? Does it trigger the usual Visa surcharge?

1 Yes
2 No

 

[tuan_nobel]

seems can't use beem with hostplus bpay.

 

[albyd]

Beem payments can only be made to billers that accept credit card by BPay so there’s still a limit to who we can pay.

 

[aspro2]

I suspect Westpac would treat Beemit as a cash advance. Can anyone confirm either way?

 

[Bell21]

I suspect Westpac would treat Beemit as a cash advance. Can anyone confirm either way?

I do this via Dragon and I haven't noticed it being treated as a cash advance

 

[albyd]

I've been using it with my Westpac credit card - going through as a purchase at this time - I imagine when the volume of Beem payments get too high, I'm sure the banks will nip it in the bud as another category they won't pay points for or treat as a cash advance.

Not all bank credit cards will work with Beem - such as Macquarie's for instance.

 

[aspro2]

Oh great to both of you, thanks.