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Sign in to tax portal. View VAT account. Check what you owe. Pay now. Debit card. Enter details.
That’s the flow I followed to pay mine while writing this very post, seemed pretty sensible to me.
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And I'm sure that's how it was, and is how I've done it in the past, but it wasn't that today. I can't recall the steps but nothing like that was available to me. It may have been because they need a day or two after the return is submitted for the balance to appear but usually on the 'ways to pay' page there's a very clear trail of 'pay online by card' > 'pay now' > enter details. I've used that for years but it seemed broken earlier and just looped.
CYOA
Have HMRC stopped card payments for VAT? I can't find the option to pay by card. Clicking the link that should direct me there just loops into options I can use (which mentions card, I click card, it takes me to options).
I've only just submitted the return but in previous returns the link has functioned no matter when I submitted the return / when I tried to pay it. Have they updated it?
Edit: found it - they've moved it and it's properly obfuscated. Very strange. To give you an idea - I can't actually find it again now. And the first time I tried to pay it didn't let me input my registration number and showed in the completed pre submission form 'something went wrong'. Click back and tried again and it worked.
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