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Tax Office accidentally creates a points bonanza · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from the Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the front's afternoon headlines. Looks like the Australian tax office
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  Speaker 1: has accidentally created a points bonanza for credit card users.
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  Speaker 1: The ATO has banned credit card payments, but the change
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  Speaker 1: won't come into effect until mid next year. After a
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  Speaker 1: wild business backlash prompted the government to say it'd delay
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  Speaker 1: the change and and pay the card surcharge that individual
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  Speaker 1: taxpayers previously got hit with. That surcharge meant it often
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  Speaker 1: didn't make sense to pay on card because any points
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  Speaker 1: you gained would be cancelled out by the surcharge. Now
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  Speaker 1: that the government said it'll put that cost onto taxpayers,
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  Speaker 1: there are predictions points junkies will flock to pay their
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  Speaker 1: bills on plastic before the new rules come into place
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  Speaker 1: next year. The ATO banned credit cards after the Reserve
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  Speaker 1: Bank banned card surcharges. The tax office said it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: fair to ask taxpayers to pick up the bill for
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  Speaker 1: the surcharges, so it banned the cards altogether. We'll have
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  Speaker 1: a deep dive on this on the front later this week.
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  Speaker 1: And with senior government ministers stumbling over who knew what
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  Speaker 1: and when, it's become one of the hottest political stories.
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  Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin wants to hold talks to end the Ukraine war,
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  Speaker 1: but doesn't want to talk to Ukraine about it. Putin
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  Speaker 1: has used an October 9 phone call with Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: to suggest he, Trump and China's Xi Jinping meet in
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  Speaker 1: November to talk about how to end the war. In
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  Speaker 1: the days since that call, which has only just been revealed,
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  Speaker 1: Trump won a deal to buy Russian diesel in order
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  Speaker 1: to lower fuel prices before the midterm elections in the
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  Speaker 1: United States. He also halted the implementation of sanctions on Russia.
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  Speaker 1: Check out those stories live right now at theaustralian.com.au and
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  Speaker 1: come back to the front first thing in the morning
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  Speaker 1: for our close look at the story captivating Europe right now.
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  Speaker 1: What seems like an entire generation of young French people
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  Speaker 1: out on the streets in demonstrations that have blown up
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  Speaker 1: from grievances about school conditions to uncontrolled mob violence and
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  Speaker 1: a sweeping set of demands for social change. That's right
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  Speaker 1: here Tuesday morning.