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Non-sterling payments fall short as bank takes conversion fee

HMRC rewrites the currency rule identically across its CCL, Gaming Duty and Economic Crime Levy payment guides: non-GBP payments are converted with the fee taken from the payment, leaving a shortfall to top up.

By Taxxa AI OyPublished 13 November 2026

Tax

Industry: Across industries

Businesses paying HMRC from a non-sterling account face a new shortfall ruleGOV that now reads identically across three payment guidesGOV. The Pay Climate Change Levy, Pay Gaming or Bingo Duty and Pay your Economic Crime Levy pages all replace their old one-line currency warnings with the same directive and the same consequenceGOV: pay HMRC in pounds sterling (GBP)GOV, and if you pay in any other currency the bank will convert itGOV and take a conversion fee from the paymentGOV, so HMRC receives less than intendedGOV and a further payment is needed to make up the full amountGOV.

The practical change is who bears the fee and what follows. The old wordings said the bank may charge for non-sterling payments, which read as a separate bank charge levied on the payer. The new rule states the fee comes out of the remitted sum itselfGOV: the converted payment arriving at HMRC is net of the feeGOV, which means the liability is underpaid by exactly that amountGOV. A payer who remits the headline liability figure in a foreign currency will therefore always be shortGOV, and must make another payment so that HMRC receives the full amountGOV.

The scope of the instruction also widens on one of the three pages. The levy page previously spoke only to overseas payments, advising that overseas payments should be made in sterling. The replacement drops the overseas qualifier: the directive and the conversion-fee consequence now apply to any payment in another currency, however it is routedGOV. The Climate Change Levy and Gaming Duty pages move from an imperative one-liner to the same fuller directive plus the shortfall mechanismGOV.

Payers within these regimes who cannot remit in sterling should check what HMRC actually received against the liability dueGOV. Any gap needs a prompt top-up payment: the guidance states HMRC receives less than intendedGOV, so the liability is met only once the further payment brings HMRC receipts up to the full amountGOV.

The revised wording appears identically in HMRC payment guidance: Pay Climate Change Levy, Pay Gaming or Bingo Duty and Pay your Economic Crime LevyGOV.

Remit CCL, Gaming or Bingo Duty and Economic Crime Levy liabilities in pounds sterling, and where a foreign-currency payment was used, check HMRC receipts and top up any conversion-fee shortfall.

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