Yes. If you wish to pay at the Bank or the Post Office you will need to use the HMRC Payslip as usual, (supplied by HMRC) and when completing SDLT.co.uk one of the first pieces of data to enter will be the Pay Slip reference (known as a Unique Transaction Return Number [UTRN]). This enables the E-Submission data to be associated with your cheque, pays the duty and that then allows a Certificate to be issued. 

If you are going to post a cheque to HMRC then we suggest you don't fill in the UTRN prior to submission as one will then be automatically filled in for you upon successful submission. Then write this automatically generatedUTRN number on the cheque prior to posting to HMRC.

Yes. HMRC encourage and welcome electronic payment via CHAPS or BACS.

 

This is the fastest way to get a certificate returned. In this scenario you do not initially have a reference (Unique Transaction Return Number [UTRN]) and you leave the reference blank when submitting the data. HMRC will issue you with a reference generated by their system. This reference will automatically appear in the E-Submission Success report that is returned to you in the SDLT.co.uk application, which in turn is printed for you on paper as a File Note for your records. Use the auto-generated UTRN as the reference on the electronic payment.

Yes. There is a small disbursement charge of £6.00 + VAT (£10 + VAT for "fully managed online" version) for each succesful E-Submission (which is per matter in reality).  Most firms pass this small charge onto their client as a "disbursment" on the client bill. SDLT.co.uk collect the disbursement charge per successful submission via a monthly direct debit from your bank. Five days before the payment date, you are emailed the previous months transaction report and a copy invoice for your cashiers.

 

The Law Society’s guidance to date has been to charge £50 + VAT per SDLT form that you complete on your clients behalf. You, acting as agent are offering a service. What you are offering when using ‘SDLT.co.uk’ is part of that service, so either add the SDLT.co.uk submission fee on as a disbursement or absorb the fee per matter, knowing that the time wasted and money lost with rejected manually filled in forms more than outweighs the minimal cost of using ‘SDLT.co.uk’. 

You pay via a Direct Debit Mandate, as you will most likely do for your Electronic Searches. The SDLT.co.uk charge per submission is such a low charge that its administration of billing and collection must be efficient and easy for both you and ourselves.

Once a month you will be emailed a transaction report vatable invoice. The invoice clearly shows the date, the UTRN ref, your matter number, the clients surname, address and postcode as well as the name of the person in your firm that actually sent the E-Submission.
 

You have five days with which to query anything on the transaction invoice, after which we shall automatically debit your account as per the mandates instruction. You can download the mandate here now if you need to - just  Click here.

No. To pay the actual duty see the top two Q & A in this Payments section -  either payable by cheque or electronic transfer - direct to HMRC.