Payments: How to Pay instructions
These pages give you information on how and where to make payment to HM Revenue & Customs. We have shown how long you should allow for each payment type to reach us to help you pay on time.
Faster Payment
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is currently unable to receive or make payments
using the Faster Payment Service, which is offered by some banks.
For a bank's customer to make a Faster Payment, both its bank and the payee's bank must be members of the Faster Payment Scheme. The Bank of England, who is currently HMRC's banking supplier, made a decision some time ago to withdraw from the provision of retail banking services to its customers (one of which is HMRC) and has not joined the Faster Payments Scheme.
HMRC is in the process of migrating its business to a new banking supplier but services will not be fully operational until about mid-2009. By that time HMRC and the bank expect to have developed the necessary changes to their systems to enable Faster Payments to be made, received and processed effectively and efficiently.
Our aim
To make it as convenient as possible for you to pay your tax and to provide different payment methods to suit differing needs. In particular we explain all the different ways you can pay electronically.
Where to pay
You can pay
- Through your bank (e.g. by Telephone or Internet banking, BACS Direct Credit or exceptionally CHAPS.)
- At your bank (using Bank Giro)
- At the Post Office (not VAT Excise and Custom Duties)
- By Debit Card over the Internet (SA, PAYE, Stamp Duty Land Tax and Pension Schemes only) or
- Direct to HM Revenue & Customs
For more detailed ‘How to Pay’ instructions please follow the link for the customer group most relevant to you:
