Electronic Payments Mandated

[BTS]

A lot of it is USPS issues too.  Had a client mail in her $5 balance due to School Tax and it took 20 days to travel 50 miles !!!!   We printed off another payment voucher and they were ready to mail it in when they received the "Certified Mail" receipt.  Always mail Certified.  

[GLJEANNE]

Yes, USPS for sure!  I've done taxes electronically for years, but still liked paying other bills by check.  But 3 or 4 years ago a client paid me by check and mailed it and it took 3 weeks - in the same damn city as me!!  So then I started to gradually pull back.  Now I enjoy having most of electronic, just so I don't have to leave the house in winter, lol.

[Randall]

I mailing something to a client the other day on a Friday.  I was told it would arrive Monday.  It was a week later on the following Monday when the client received it.

 

[mcb39]

1 hour ago, Randall said:

I mailing something to a client the other day on a Friday.  I was told it would arrive Monday.  It was a week later on the following Monday when the client received it.

 

I mailed my Frontier bill on March 13.  It was due today.  Today I received a late payment notice and the check has not cleared my account.  Now we have to be afraid of electronic payments and paper payments as well.  Where will it stop?

[Lee B]

For years my electricity bill has been paid via automatic debit from my checking account.

Two years ago, I received a past due notice. I had to do some detective work and my utility didn't want to admit what had happened.

It turns out they had been using a third party service to handle all of their automatic payments .

The third party service had computer problems which skipped 2 days worth of automatic payments.

It made me mad because our utility co had never notified us of the use of a third party service.

So electronic Payments can malfunction too

 

[Sara EA]

22 hours ago, BulldogTom said:

What I don't want is those stupid ba$ta3ds to require me to get an ID.me account to pay them.

You don't need an IRS account to make a payment.  At IRS.gov there is a link to make a payment that does not require sign in, just name and last year's filing status I believe.

[Lee B]

7 minutes ago, Sara EA said:

You don't need an IRS account to make a payment.  At IRS.gov there is a link to make a payment that does not require sign in, just name and last year's filing status I believe.

Yes, I and some of my clients use it to make our estimated payments and it works quite well

[Catherine]

On 3/26/2025 at 5:30 PM, joanmcq said:

who pay by check.  I don't know if this means anything

Reminds me of the joke of the IT professional whose only in-house electronic device is an ancient printer, and they keep a weapon near to hand in case it ever makes any weird sounds. 

[Catherine]

On 3/28/2025 at 6:14 PM, mcb39 said:

Where will it stop?

Cash-only in-person payment stations inside banks or other businesses, that then transmit electronically to the intended recipient. Receipt from payment station = proof of timely payment.

I've had bank-directed electronic payments get missed, too. Rare; maybe two in 15+ years, but not infallible.