Pay employers' PAYE

Approve a payment through your online bank account

You can pay your PAYE bill directly using your online or mobile bank account.

You’ll need to have your banking details ready before you start.

When you’re ready to pay, start your PAYE payment.

Select ‘pay by bank account’. You’ll then be directed to sign in to your online or mobile banking account to approve a payment to ‘HMRC Shipley’.

You can select a date to pay, as long as it’s before your payment is due.

Check your account to make sure that the payment has gone out on the correct day. If the payment has not gone out as expected, speak to your bank.

The payment is usually instant but sometimes it takes up to 2 hours to show in your account.

You’ll need to use your 13-character accounts office reference number as the payment reference. You can find this:

in your HMRC online account
on the letter HMRC sent you when you registered as an employer (or sent to your accountant or tax adviser if they registered on your behalf)

Your payment may be delayed if you use the wrong reference number.