To pay by check, make your check payable to the Director of Revenue and mail it along with the departments payment voucher, to the address indicated on the voucher. OnLine Taxes will produce a payment voucher for your convenience with your forms if you owe.

To pay electronically, visit the Montana Payment Options Page. You may pay using a credit or debit card with this option.

If you are unable to pay your tax in full, file your return by the due date and pay as much tax as you can with the return.

Send payment(s) as soon and as often as possible, prior to notification from the Department of Revenue. Refund returns are processed before tax due returns, so you may not receive immediate notification.

Making payments will not prevent the assessment of penalties and interest. However, paying as much as you can, as soon as you can, will minimize these assessments.

Be sure payments reflect the name and the social security number and tax year to which the payment is to be applied. If one payment is to be applied to more than one social security number, include a statement identifying how the payment is to be allocated between social security numbers.

If you are married filing separately, on the same tax form or on separate tax forms, you are assessed penalties and interest individually.

If you purposely failed to timely file or pay your Montana taxes, you may be assessed penalties and interest at higher rates than those rates stated above.

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