If adopted, recommendations of the Murray report could help newsagents and other small businesses when it comes to handling fees associatied with customer use of cards for payment.
Recommendations to reform the payments system would benefit SMEs (see Recommendation 17: Interchange fees and customer surcharging and Recommendation 16: Clearer graduated payments regulation in Chapter 3). The Inquiry’s proposals to lower interchange fee caps would reduce the fees paid by all businesses and reduce the difference in fees paid by small and large businesses.
What actually happens will depend on governments and banks.
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