Electronic Payment

18.10 Payment for earlier periods

If the payment you are making is for a previous deduction year, or your regular monthly/quarterly payment is more than 2 weeks after the payment date, your Accounts Office reference needs to show the period that the payment relates to.

To make a payment for an earlier year, for example 2006/07 add 0713 to your Accounts Office reference number to give 123PA000123450713.

Note: always show the month as 13 when paying an earlier year.

To pay an earlier month, for example, to make a payment for May (month 02) in August of 2007/08 add 0802 to your Accounts Office reference to give 123PA000123450802.

Note: when the month number is a single digit add a zero in front (month 2 is shown as 02).

If you use CHAPS, or the BillPay service, you only need to make one payment. You must include the 13-character reference (see above), for example, 241PZ00037465. BillPay already has our bank account details, so you will not be asked for them.

When paying by CHAPS it is better to make separate payments for each scheme (PAYE reference). But if you want to make one payment to cover a number of schemes, you must provide all the correct reference and payment details to our Banking Operations in advance, so we can allocate the payment to the right reference. The easiest way to do this is by e-mailing the information to us at:

Banking Office Cumbernauld

Fax 01236 783016
E-mail: directpayments

Banking Office Shipley

Fax 01274 539616
E-mail directpayments

For more information on how to pay telephone 0845 366 7816, 8:00am – 8:00pm Monday to Friday and 8:00am – 4:00pm Saturday.

If you are thinking about starting to pay by CHAPS, you must contact our Banking Operations at least three days in advance, preferably by email.

We will let you know what information you need to give us and when to make sure we allocate your payment accurately.