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How the card surcharge ban could change our relationship with cash
Some small businesses may start offering discounts for cash payments after the card surcharge ban. (ABC News: Tristan Hooft)
With the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) ban on card surcharges now in effect you might start seeing local businesses offering discounts if you pay in cash.
Cash payments in Australia are much less common than they were a decade ago, but the RBA's latest data showed a slight uptick in cash use in 2025.
How could the ban on card surcharges impact how cash is used in Australia?
This graph from the RBA's 2025 Consumer Payments Survey tracks the percentage of Australians who use cash in a typical week.
Minister breaks ranks, calls for banks to absorb card surcharge pain
A Labor frontbencher has urged the Reserve Bank of Australia to pressure banks to absorb the cost of the government’s card surcharge ban as it once again attempts to clean up the political mess caused by the change.
The ban, which was touted to save Australians about $1.6 billion a year, came into effect on October 1.
Kristy McBain says banks should absorb the costs associated with the government’s surcharge ban. Audrey Richardson
But despite the overhaul including a new cap on interchange fees in an attempt to prevent sellers from being left worse off by the changes, many businesses and other organisations have either increased customer prices or banned credit card payments to cover higher costs associated with the new system.
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