The ATO

Australian Taxation Office

Status Credit cards end after 30 Jun 2027

Australia’s tax collector. Until 30 September 2026 it passed its bank’s card fee to payers at cost, 0.94 to 2.03 per cent on credit and international cards and nothing on debit; since 1 October it charges no card fee, and on 1 October it announced it would stop accepting credit cards after 30 November 2026, saying it would not be appropriate for the cost of credit card merchant fees to be transferred to the community; on 9 October 2026 it extended that date to 30 June 2027.

First tracked: 2026
Last on record: 2026-10-03
Named in: 8 articles
Across: 2 cases

Named in 8 articles across 2 cases 29 connections: companies 10, lobbies 3, mechanisms 5, regulators and bodies 4, agencies and departments 2, parties and organisations 1, people 4

Key figure on file

A$0.48 per barrel, 2021 to 2029

After NOGA's collapse, the Commonwealth assumed the Northern Endeavour and Laminaria-Corallina liability and imposed a cost-recovery levy of A$0.48 p… ATO, Laminaria and Corallina decommissioning cost-recovery levy

Articles naming it

Cases it recurs across

Linked in the graph

Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

Australia's Gas HeistA$0.48 per barrel, 2021 to 2029After NOGA's collapse, the Commonwealth assumed the Northern Endeavour and Laminaria-Corallina liability and imposed a cost-recovery levy of A$0.48…6 articles →The Surcharge Rort0.98 per centThe ATO’s card fee on a domestic Visa credit card until 30 September 2026, set equal to what its bank charged it. Mastercard domestic credit was 0.…2 articles →

Fig. 01Source: article scan · every article naming itAs of 2026‑10‑03Auto-assembled

Fig. 02 / On the record

A$0.48 per barrel, 2021 to 2029After NOGA's collapse, the Commonwealth assumed the Northern Endeavour and Laminaria-Corallina liability and imposed a cost-recovery levy of A$0.48 per barrel of oil equivalent, applying each year from 1 July 2021 to 1 July 2029, collected by the ATO.Source: ATO, Laminaria and Corallina decommissioning cost-recovery levyThe A$60 billion boomerang: who cleans up the offshore rigs when the gas money is gone →
0.98 per centThe ATO’s card fee on a domestic Visa credit card until 30 September 2026, set equal to what its bank charged it. Mastercard domestic credit was 0.94 per cent, American Express 1.45 per cent, international Visa and Mastercard 2.03 per cent, and debit cards carried no fee.The cost the Tax Office won’t wear →
2.3 per centThe approximate share of tax payments made by credit card in 2024-25, the ATO says. It adds that more than 60 per cent of card payments came from privately owned and wealthy groups and public and multinational businesses. It does not say whether these shares are by number or by value.The cost the Tax Office won’t wear →
11.51 per centThe ATO’s general interest charge, a year, compounding daily, for October to December 2026. It applies to tax debts, including debts on a payment plan, and was 11.43 per cent in July to September.The cost the Tax Office won’t wear →

Fig. 02Source: figures on file for this name, each tied to the article it came fromAs of 2026‑10‑03Auto-assembled

How we know

The sources of the 8 articles that name the ATO, by the tier the desk declared. A source supports its article, not necessarily a claim about the ATO.

Evidence strength · 177 sources across 8 articles

Primary 66
Official 45
Masthead 10
Trade 40
Aggregator 9
Unusable 1
6 not yet graded

Primary: the document itself: legislation, a court record, a filing, a regulator’s own publication
Official: the organisation’s own statement about itself
Masthead: a news organisation with a corrections policy, reporting the primary document
Trade: specialist or trade press
Aggregator: republishes others’ work
Unusable: its own sourcing cannot be established

How sources are graded

6 of 8 articles are graded on every headline finding. How findings are graded

Fig. 03 / Named together

The 12 names most often in the same articles as The ATO. A line's weight, and the number by each name, is how many articles name both. Grey chords join the neighbours most often named together themselves (two articles or more). Circles are people and organisations, squares are mechanisms. Named together is all this shows: it is not a finding about what the relationship is.

Fig. 03Source: article scan · articles naming bothAs of 2026‑10‑03Auto-assembled