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Submitting or changing your bank account number

These instructions are for individual taxpayers, corporate taxpayers, and organisations. If you are submitting a bank account number for a death estate, see the instructions for estates.

The Tax Administration needs your bank account number to pay you tax refunds. Submit your bank account number to the Tax Administration if you have not submitted it yet or if it has changed.

Please note that you cannot submit your bank account number by telephone or email.

Submit your bank account number in MyTax

When you submit the bank account number in MyTax, it will be updated in our records immediately.

Submit your bank account number in MyTax

See the instructions: How to submit a bank account number in MyTax

You cannot use MyTax to submit or change the bank account number of an individual under guardianship. The guardian can submit the bank account number on a paper form.

You can submit the bank account number of your underage child in MyTax

If you are the guardian of an underage child, log in to MyTax using your personal online banking codes or mobile certificate and select Act on behalf of someone else.

A child under 18 can also submit their own bank account number in MyTax if they have their own online banking codes or a mobile certificate.

How to restrict the changing of your bank account number to MyTax only

If you wish, you can choose that your bank account number can be changed only by a person who has logged in to MyTax. If you do so, the account number cannot be submitted on paper.

  • Go to MyTax and select Taxpayer details.
  • Scroll down to Setting security restrictions on the use of Tax Administration services.
  • Select Change the restrictions.
  • Under Method of reporting details, select Reporting details permitted in MyTax only.
  • Click Next.
  • Re-check the changes you made and click Submit.

Individual taxpayers can submit their bank account numbers on paper forms

Use the following forms:

Do as follows:

  • Fill in the required details and sign the form.
  • Send the completed form to the address stated on the top of the form.
  • You can order an empty form by calling our service number 029 497 030 (limited service available in English, standard call rates).

Corporate entities and VAT taxpayers must submit their bank account numbers in MyTax

Corporate entities and VAT taxpayers must use MyTax to submit their bank account numbers.

However, authorised agents who have logged in to MyTax to handle their client’s affairs cannot change the account numbers of a limited companies, public limited companies or associations. Only the following parties can change the bank account number:

  • A representative of the company or cooperative, with an official role recorded in the Trade Register.
  • A person with an official role recorded in the Register of Associations, such as the association’s Chair or a representative authorised to sign for the association alone.

Paper forms can only be used for submitting the bank account number if there is a special reason, such as technical difficulties. Read more: Corporate taxpayers’ bank account notice (7209e).

Page last updated 6/12/2024