Complete the following steps to pay your income tax balance from your checking or savings account.
- Check the ‘Owe – electronic funds withdrawal’ box on your income tax form.
- Enter your bank's nine-digit routing number. See the sample check below to locate your checking account routing number. Your bank can provide your savings account routing number.
- Enter your bank account number. See the sample check below to locate your checking account number (up to 17 characters). Do not include your check number. Your savings account number is available on your preprinted deposit slips, your passbook, or other bank records.
- Enter an electronic funds withdrawal date only if you want to specify a future payment date up to and including April 15, 2008. The bank will not withdraw money from your account before the date you specify.
- If you designate a weekend or bank holiday, the bank will withdraw the payment on the next business day.
- If you specify a date later than April 15, 2008, the money will be withdrawn from your account on the due date.
- If you file your return after the due date, the money will be withdrawn from your account on the day we process your return.
Important information about your bank account.
Before you complete this transaction, you must first contact your bank and make sure that your bank account does not have a debit block. If it does, you'll need to provide the bank with our debit block information so your payment will not be rejected.
Please note the following:
- We will only take the amount of money that you authorize from your account
- If we cannot process your payment or you owe an additional amount, we will send you a bill which may include interest and penalty
- You should monitor your bank account to verify that the payment was successful
Sample check
