PM says he fixed the ATO credit card issue, but Treasurer says he wasn’t rolled

Key points

• Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he personally intervened after Andrew McKellar of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry contacted him about the tax office's move to refuse credit card payments. Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he and the Prime Minister agreed on a longer transition period and that he was not overruled.
• The government will provide transitional funding so the tax office can keep accepting credit card payments until the end of the financial year.
• The Opposition called the reversal an embarrassing backflip and accused the Prime Minister of humiliating his Treasurer.