Ways to pay your council tax

Paying by Direct Debit is quicker, easier and better. Just sign up once and we’ll do the rest. You won’t need to remember to pay.

You can choose from four payment dates in the month 1st, 5th, 15th or 25th. And you can choose to pay over 10 or 12 months, or however many months remain in the financial year.

You are also protected by the Direct Debit Guarantee so if anything goes wrong you can get your money back straight away.

Sign up for Direct Debit

Make a change to your Direct Debit

If you want to change the date that your Direct Debit payments are taken from your bank account, please just complete a new Sign up for Direct Debit form and choose the date you want.

You can set up a regular payment from your bank account to pay the instalments on your bill. If your bill changes you will need to tell your bank to change your payments.

The information you need is:

• Bank account name: Salford City Council
• Bank account number: 93073130
• Sort code: 20-54-66
• Your council tax reference number: this is on the front of your bill or notice

Payments from some bank accounts can take up to three days to reach us.

You can pay your council tax bill online with a debit or credit card 24 hours a day, every day. You will need your council tax account number to make a payment.

You will be forwarded to our Civica payments portal when you click the button below.

Pay your bill online now

Pay by debit or credit card using our automated telephone payment line 24 hours a day, every day. Have your council tax account number ready when you call.

You can pay your bill by debit or credit card at any of our Gateway Centres or the Broughton Hub. See our Gateway centres page for opening times.

You can pay your bill by cash, debit or credit card at any Post Office or by cash and debit card at a PayPoint outlet. This service is free. Take your bill or notice with you as you will need the bar code on it to make your payment. Payments made through Post Office and PayPoint can take up to five days to reach us so please allow for this when making your payment.

Payments can be made from an overseas bank account direct to Salford City Council's bank account. The information you need to do this is:

• Bank account number: 93073130
• Sort code: 20-54-66
• Bank account name: Salford City Council General Fund
• Bank Address: Barclays Bank, Floor 11, 20 Chapel Street, Liverpool, L3 9AG
• Swift code: BARCGB22
• IBAN Number: GB30 BARC 2054 6693 0731 30
• Your council tax number, this is on the front of your bill or notice

You can make a single payment for multiple different council tax payments at the same time. Follow the three steps below.

Our bank details

Council tax bulk payments should be made to:

• Bank account name: Salford City Council
• Bank account number: 93073130
• Sort code: 20-54-66

Remittance spreadsheet

For each bulk payment you have made, please use the template provided below called ‘Council tax bulk remittance notification’ to tell us how you want the payment allocated to your accounts. A copy of the template will be sent to you each month with your council tax balances.

• Download the council tax bulk remittance notification spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel Comma Separated Value format, 1kb)

Step one

Rename the spreadsheet using your company name followed by the word remit. For example, if your company name is AAA maintenance, you should name your file AAA maintenance remit.

Step two

In the file, please provide the following information for each account you want the bulk payment to be allocated to.

• Column A is the date the payment is made
• Column B is the Council Tax reference number the payment is to be allocated to
• Column C is the amount you want allocated to that Council Tax account
• Column D is whatever you called the payment when it was made
• There is no limit to the number of lines you can have. Please add a total at the bottom of all the entries and ensure it matches the total value of the bulk payment

Step three

Email the completed remittance spreadsheet to Income.Control@salford.gov.uk when you make your bulk payment