Tax Payments: FTB
This tax guide contains information on how to make payments through the FTB website. Please follow the information that applies to you.
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Checking or savings account. No fees.
Bank Account
Personal
You can make various payments for: Current year, amended tax return, estimated tax payments, extension payments. and proposed assessments.
Business
You can make various payments such as, but not limited to: Annual tax or fee, bill or other balance due, current year or amended tax return, estimated tax payments, and extension payments.
There’s a 2.3% service fee if you pay by credit card. Processed through ACI Payments.
Credit Card
Personal
You can make credit card payments for: Bill or other balance due, current year tax return, extension payments, and estimated tax payments.
Business
You can make credit card payments for: Annual tax, bill or other balance due, current year or amended tax return, estimated fee, estimated tax payments, extension payments, and proposed assessments.
Apply for an installment agreement plan. A setup fee will be charged.
Payment Plan
Personal
Eligibility: You may be eligible for an installment agreement if: Amount due does not exceed $25,000, you can pay the amount in 60 months or less and you’ve filed all your income tax returns for the past 5 years.
Business
Eligibility: You may be eligible for an installment agreement if: Amount due does not exceed $25,000. You can pay the amount in 12 months or less and you've filed all your tax returns.
This self-service currently has limited availability and may not be available to all businesses.
Check, Money Order, Cashier’s Check
If you pay by check, money order, or cashier’s check, you can either:
Mail your payment — OR —
Pay in person at a field office.
Please note the following from the USPS website:
While we are not changing our postmarking practices, we have made adjustments to our transportation operations that will result in some mailpieces not arriving at our originating processing facilities on the same day that they are mailed. This means that the date on the postmarks applied at our processing facilities will not necessarily match the date on which the customer’s mailpiece was collected by a letter carrier or dropped off at a retail location.
As before, a customer can ensure that a postmark is applied to his or her mailpiece, and that the date on the postmark matches the date of mailing, by visiting a Postal Service retail location and requesting a manual (local) postmark at the retail counter when tendering their mailpiece. Manual postmarks will be applied free of charge.
➜ https://about.usps.com/newsroom/statements/010226-postmarking-myths-and-facts.htm
Electronic funds withdrawal (EFW) allows you to make a tax payment from your checking or savings account when you file electronically (e-file).
To use EFW, you must either file through either: Tax preparation software or a tax professional. Please advise your TBC Tax Preparer to arrange payment by Electronic Funds Withdrawal as we would need your banking information to include in your e-filed tax return.
Electronic Funds Withdrawal (EFW)
What you can pay with EFW: Pay tax return balances when you e-file. Make a stand-alone payment after you e-file and pay estimated tax and extension payments.
Electronic Funds Transfer for Corporations (EFT)
Electronic funds transfer (EFT) allows banks and corporations to transfer money from their bank account to FTB.
EFT payment can be made with Automated Clearing House (ACH) debit or credit for free.
If you use this method, please keep a copy of your payment information for your records. You will not be able to retrieve it later, as you can only do so with MyFTB.
You can register with MyFTB account to view payments, cancel payments and schedule future payments.
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