Financial Rights believes for the sake of simplicity, consistency, fairness and ensuring that the most disadvantaged Australians are no longer penalised, that there should be a prohibition on paper billing fees. Billing fees are regressive in nature and punitive, with those who can least afford to pay left with “the bill”. We strongly believe that on principle, people should not have to pay a fee in order to receive a bill – a bill that is detailing how much money a business is charging a person for goods and services provided.
