HMRCs old bank accounts are closing – make sure you use the new ones

During 2009 HMRC moved its banking services from the Bank of England to Citi and Royal Bank of Scotland Group. This meant that all HMRC bank sort codes and account numbers changed during 2009.

Although HMRC temporarily continued to accept payments made using the old Bank of England account details, this will change during 2010 when the old accounts will be closed. If you’ve not yet set up your payments to go to the new accounts please do so now – see below for more on how to do this. If you pay by Bank Giro, please make sure you use one of the newly issued payslips slips.

If you are paying HMRC by Direct Debit you don’t need to do anything. Your Direct Debit instruction remains active.

More information on the HMRC website at http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/payinghmrc/bank-account-mig.htm