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Originally Posted by HarryT
Same here. I pay virtually everything by Direct Debit - it’s by far the easiest way to pay bills.
I only have two bills that vary every month: my credit card and my mobile phone. The credit card company sends me a statement by email a few days before the payment is withdrawn, and the phone company sends me a text message.
The only bill I have to pay manually is my annual tax bill (I run my own business and hence, unlike most people, have to pay tax myself rather than my employer doing it for me!)
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My primary issue with direct debit is that once you give a company permission to withdraw money from your account, they can take whatever they wish, whenever they wish and it's very hard to withdraw permission. That's why I pay via my bank's bill pay. That way, I push the amount I want, when I want.