Sauce Boss owner Sheri Tolomeo can’t afford to pay extra swipe fees tacked on by companies every time customers pay with credit cards. Anyone who uses credit cards at her Harrisburg pizza shop pays a ...

You may have seen advertisements warning of “credit card chaos” coming to Illinois this summer, but the reality is much more ...

A proposal to reduce credit card swipe fees has whipped up a frothy, multi-million-dollar lobbying fight at the State Capitol ...

Credit card companies offer a service. They provide people with a plastic and metal card allowing them to make cashless payments across the world. In exchange, those credit card companies get an ...

A federal agency ruled that Illinois cannot limit credit card swipe fees for federally chartered banks. The Illinois law sought to prohibit swipe fees on the tax and tip portions of transactions. The ...

A proposal is moving through the Kansas Legislature that would ban credit card networks from applying fees to sales taxes and tips. If passed, the measure would unlock immediate savings for the ...

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Passed in 2024 and set to take effect this July, the state law bans certain so-called swipe fees on the tax and tip portions of customers’ bills.