Pay your Self Assessment tax bill
At your bank or building society
You can only pay at your branch by cash or cheque if you both:
- still get paper statements from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
- have the paying-in slip HMRC sent you
Make your cheque payable to 鈥楬M Revenue and Customs only鈥�.
Write your 11-character payment reference on the back of the cheque. This is your 10-digit Unique Taxpayer Reference (UTR) followed by the letter 鈥楰鈥�. You鈥檒l find the reference number on the paying-in slip.
HMRC will accept your payment on the date you make it, and not the date it reaches their account (as long as you pay from Monday to Friday).
If you do not have a paying-in slip
You鈥檒l need to pay by another method instead, for example: