Paying council tax bill at post office using American express

BeeLondon

ns1993 said:

WillPS said:

ns1993 said:

WillPS said:

info_maniac said:

Has anyone been successful in paying council tax bill at post office using American express?

No.

The only potential way to get a council tax bill settled my Amex is if your council accepts PayPoint payments - in which case, unless something's changed, a Co-op food store (run by the Co-op Group and not another society) will accept Amex payment to settle a PayPoint bill.

Last time I checked not many councils do accept PayPoint, but some do. If yours, like mine, only accepts Post Office/PayZone, you're out of luck.

Some Tesco Express stores have PayZone, so will accept Amex to settle the bill

Does this actually work? If Tesco put the card payment through on their own tills, it probably will. If the customer is asked to put their card in a device connected to the PayZone terminal, I expect it probably won't.

The Tesco stores by me process the bill side via a PayZone device, and a generic "Bill Payment" SKU on their till, so the payment is made directly to Tesco. They then keep a duplicate receipt to match up in the till at the end of the day. I've used this several times for British Gas bills, Council Tax would be no different.

I just tried to pay the bill at the Tesco store with PayZone at Molsey but two staff told me that they only accept cash.  

BeeLondon

Gerry1 said:

My local council's website offers Council Tax payment by Visa and Mastercard but not Amex.  It makes no mention of Pay Point.

I considered using my Chase card, but CT payments aren't valid for the 1% cashback.

However, when I phoned the council out of curiosity they said this was possible and sent me a PP payment card linked to my CT account.

I tried it in a Londis store at a BP station and they happily accepted my BA Amex card.  I had to make two transactions because the monthly CT payment exceeded £200, but both went through and earned Avios.  😀

May I know if it is via PayZone ? and where is the Londis? thanks!!   I tired to make CT payment at Londis at Kingston before but they told me that they only accept cash for bill payment.