ATO (tax office) payments by credit card

[Flashback]

Yes @Flashback I left the tax accounting industry in 1983 so a few things changed over the last 41 years.

I found the advice to be the same in AU (14 years ago) and UK (now), but maybe it's changed - who knows! Well, someone knows......

 

[Obi-run Kenobi]

Been a while since I've used YakPay...Do these payments count towards minimum CC spend / bonus points?

 

[aspro2]

Been a while since I've used YakPay...Do these payments count towards minimum CC spend / bonus points?

Sure do. At least in my cases.

 

[georgie23]

Been a while since I've used YakPay...Do these payments count towards minimum CC spend / bonus points?

Yes - did for me very recently

 

[Jpmoore100]

It's a max of 15 per day...10 via the mygov website and 5 via the easypay website. I need to do more then 15 per day.

Does anyone know what counts as a 'day'? I 10+5 last night, and this morning can't do any.

 

[albyd]

I think they look at it in terms of a 24 hour period. IME, that seems to work but then again, it's not always the case, seems a bit random. I tend to use the "24 hour" rule when making these payments - the ATO sure is making this harder in their fight against "fraud" - I'm not sure why you would try it on with the ATO for fraud - kinda like painting a target on your back. There may be something I'm missing here though ... YMMV.

 

[Ansett Nostalgic]

What's the best cpp method of paying ATO these days?

 

[georgie23]

Yakpay is what I use - not sure if anything else has better options

 

[Leroy87]

Got a chunky personal ATO bill to pay and can't pay through a business, so any services requiring an ABN are out.

From the reading of the thread, it looks like AMEX via Sniip might be the best bet but from my calcs it seems marginal...

~2c/pp transferring into AMEX partners or ~2.4c/pp transferring to MB partners (waiting for a 50% transfer bonus out of AMEX). For a lot of points currencies, that's getting close to the rate you can just buy them when they offer purchase bonuses .

Anything I'm missing?

 

[levelnine]

Anything I'm missing?

Best done in pursuit of sign-up bonuses. Barely worth it at the everyday earn rates most credit cards offer.

 

[georgie23]

Best done in pursuit of sign-up bonuses. Barely worth it at the everyday earn rates most credit cards offer.

Agree - marginal at best if can't claim the benefit from paying via a business - SNIP is best option for this if you can make the sums work for you

 

[shak151]

Got a chunky personal ATO bill to pay and can't pay through a business, so any services requiring an ABN are out.

From the reading of the thread, it looks like AMEX via Sniip might be the best bet but from my calcs it seems marginal...

~2c/pp transferring into AMEX partners or ~2.4c/pp transferring to MB partners (waiting for a 50% transfer bonus out of AMEX). For a lot of points currencies, that's getting close to the rate you can just buy them when they offer purchase bonuses .

Anything I'm missing?

If you can get hold of the variable load mastercard/visa when they are on a 10x points offer at Woolies, go for it.

 

[Leroy87]

If you can get hold of the variable load mastercard/visa when they are on a 10x points offer at Woolies, go for it.

For sure, it's a nice idea if you can find them

But with a limit of 2 per day it doesn't make much of dent tbh

 

[kpc]

If you can get hold of the variable load mastercard/visa when they are on a 10x points offer at Woolies, go for it.

Very dufficult to find them in Sydney...had to go to multiple stores...eventually got 20x $500

 

[cloo]

If you're unable to find the variable load cards at Coles/Woolies, another option is to purchase the Coles Mastercard Digital Gift Cards No Purchase Fees for $100 and $250 Coles Mastercard Digital Gift Cards @ Giftcards.com.au ... purchase appears as Retail & Personal on my cc ... I paid my tax last week ... 0.2% ATO surcharge for MasterCard Debit

 

[shak151]

Very dufficult to find them in Sydney...had to go to multiple stores...eventually got 20x $500

The happiness when you finally find them after visiting multiple stores

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If you're unable to find the variable load cards at Coles/Woolies, another option is to purchase the Coles Mastercard Digital Gift Cards No Purchase Fees for $100 and $250 Coles Mastercard Digital Gift Cards @ Giftcards.com.au ... purchase appears as Retail & Personal on my cc ... I paid my tax last week ... 0.2% ATO surcharge for MasterCard Debit

This is my fallback scenario if I can't find any gift cards.

 

[andye]

If you're unable to find the variable load cards at Coles/Woolies, another option is to purchase the Coles Mastercard Digital Gift Cards No Purchase Fees for $100 and $250 Coles Mastercard Digital Gift Cards @ Giftcards.com.au ... purchase appears as Retail & Personal on my cc ... I paid my tax last week ... 0.2% ATO surcharge for MasterCard Debit

Glad to hear this is still on though I've no current need. I thought it ceased for a while