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pay.com.au

Where pay.com.au sits in the flow of extraction.

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ENTITY / ACTORCOMPANY · PAYMENTSSTATUS · TrackedFIRST TRACKED · 2026ACROSS · 1 TOPIC

Payments firm that takes a business’s card payment and pays the ATO itself, for a fee of 1.00 to 2.10 per cent plus GST on its free plan per its fees guide; its FAQ says its Mastercard fee rose 0.2 points on 1 October 2026. It says it does not surcharge; no card network or regulator has ruled on that.

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Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

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

03 / The evidence chain

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02The cost the Tax Office won’t wearTHE SURCHARGE RORT

Nobody wrote this page. It assembled itself from every investigation that names pay.com.au, and it deepens automatically each time The Rort publishes another. The more the archive grows, the sharper this dossier gets, and the lobbyist, the donation and the revolving-door minister who recur across all of it become impossible to miss.

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