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Credit card surcharges are applied when you use your credit card to make a payment. In states where surcharges are legal, they must be clearly displayed at the point of sale and on your receipt.
Credit card surcharges are becoming more common, but they’re not legal in every state.
A payment surcharge, also known as checkout fee, is an extra fee charged by a merchant when receiving a payment by cheque, credit card, charge card, debit card or an e-money account, [1] but not cash, which at least covers the cost to the merchant of accepting that means of payment, such as the merchant service fee imposed by a credit card company. [2]
Debit cards and transactions in the ten states that prohibit credit-card surcharges will not be affected. Many large retailers, such as Wal-Mart and Target have opted not to impose surcharges. [12] In the event of a return, surcharges are refunded along with the purchase price of the merchandise. [13]
Australia also removed the "no surcharge" rule, a policy established by credit card networks like Visa and MasterCard to prevent merchants from charging a credit card usage fee to the cardholder. A surcharge would mitigate or even exceed the merchant discount paid by a merchant, but would also make the cardholder more reluctant to use the card ...
A new federal credit-card law takes effect today. The loftily-named Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 is designed to help consumers reduce fees and interest charges.
The Durbin amendment, implemented by Regulation II, [1] is a provision of United States federal law, 15 U.S.C. § 1693o-2, that requires the Federal Reserve to limit fees charged to retailers for debit card processing.
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