ATO (tax office) payments by credit card

[JayTee]

I've been using my Amex to pay big bills like ATO, SRO, school fees etc for a while now. Makes a difference.

Is there a way to avoid paying the amex fee when paying your ATO bill. I want to get the points but it will cost me $140 in fees just to do that.

Attention beloved ATO bill payment gurus.

I hold an amex plat edge credit card. I am planning to pay a large Ato bill. The fee is quite high according to the ato website. I want to built up some points, therefore, can someone tell me the best way to go about this to avoid such a high fee.

 

[bam71]

Is there a way to avoid paying the amex fee when paying your ATO bill. I want to get the points but it will cost me $140 in fees just to do that.

No..

 

[Flyerwin]

Is there a way to avoid paying the amex fee when paying your ATO bill. I want to get the points but it will cost me $140 in fees just to do that.

Price of admission. You need a ticket to ride.

 

[andye]

No..

Not sure how much homework you have done already but there are multiple ways to use Amex for ATO. It currently comes down to direct (quick but costly), payment processor (quite quick, less costly especially if you can tax deduct the fee) or giftcards (very fiddly especially for larger bills but can be very cost-effective)

I'd suggest reading the last year of posts on this thread, reading the relevant AFF editorials and getting a calculator (or spreadsheet) to work out what makes sense for you

 

[burmans]

No..

Restrained! At least you didn’t tell them to read all 500 pages of the thread!

 

[andye]

Restrained! At least you didn’t tell them to read all 500 pages of the thread!

I did a similar complete read of the old Westfield GC thread a while ago. Even though many of the loopholes had already closed it gave me lots of ideas to take advantage of when new loopholes open (some of the coded messages were funny too)

 

[kpc]

I did a similar complete read of the old Westfield GC thread a while ago. Even though many of the loopholes had already closed it gave me lots of ideas to take advantage of when new loopholes open (some of the coded messages were funny too)

Meeting other AFFers helps too....I have been told about many tricks and loopholes in person that people would never post online.

 

[georgie23]

Meeting other AFFers helps too....I have been told about many tricks and loopholes in person that people would never post online.

as in doing an online meet

 

[kpc]

as in doing an online meet

No....in person.

 

[georgie23]

No....in person.

Of course - I meant in person - sorry as in meet ups
Sorry