The Labour Party's leader says it should be cheaper for businesses to provide contactless payment services
The Labour Party's leader says it should be cheaper for businesses to provide contactless payment services
8 September 2020
Regulating merchant service fees is one plank of the party's small business election policy announced today.
Jacinda Ardern says people are looking for safe ways to buy during the pandemic - using things like payWave.
But she says companies like a bakery she's just visited in Tauranga - found bank fees prohibitively expensive.
She says some estimates claim our retailers pay 50 percent more than their Australian counterparts.
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