29 Jul 2025

Govt to stop retailers passing card surcharges on to consumers

From Morning Report, 6:18 am on 29 July 2025

Surcharges - the fees we pay when we use PayWave or a credit card - have been labelled our "national embarrassment" by Consumer NZ and now the government is going to stop retailers from passing on the costs to consumers. Consumer NZ chief executive Jon Duffy spoke to Corin Dann.