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Proof: ATO delays credit card ban as government backs down after business backlash

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-09T03:21:35Z","headline":"ATO delays credit card ban as government backs down after business backlash","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"abcau","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-09/credit-card-ban-ato-tax-small-business/107246990","v":1}

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SHA-256

af314c35f9a9196650c132cf72e58c58d203e76f13b87eca43bc819b55824813

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970580, mined 2026-10-09 04:03 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-09 03:24 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-09 01:03 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-af314c35f9a9.json prints af314c35f9a9196650c132cf72e58c58d203e76f13b87eca43bc819b55824813. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-af314c35f9a9.json and headline-af314c35f9a9.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-af314c35f9a9.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 1 min after it was first seen.