Pay personal taxes from your bank account

 

Pay personal taxes from your bank account with Direct Pay.

  • Free and secure
  • No sign-in required
  • Change or cancel within 2 days of scheduled payment

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Make a payment

Pay balance due, estimated tax and other federal income tax.

If you’ve never filed taxes or it’s been over 6 years since you filed, pay another way.

Pay personal taxes

Individual tax payment types

Look up a payment

Check, change or cancel a payment. You can only view one payment at a time.

Have your confirmation number and SSN or ITIN ready.

Look up a personal tax payment

View payment history and balance in your online account.

System availability

Direct Pay is available:

  • Monday to Saturday, 12:00 a.m. to 11:45 p.m. ET
  • Sunday, 7 a.m. to 11:45 p.m. ET 

Your payment information

Save your confirmation number

You’ll need it to look up, change or cancel your payment.

You can also opt to get a confirmation email in Direct Pay.

You get a confirmation number for each payment you make in Direct Pay.

Change or cancel your payment

You can change or cancel a payment within 2 days of the scheduled payment date.

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Limitations

IRS Direct Pay doesn’t accept more than 2 payments in 24 hours.

A payment can’t exceed $10 million.