You can use a Mastercard debit card instead of a bank account. Otherwise you pretty much covered it.
If I used a card instead of ACH, wouldn’t I get charged a “convenience fee” as an additional insult?
Maybe there’s a difference here between using a debit card which goes directly to the bank account, and a credit card, which goes through an intermediary, I don’t know.
I haven’t investigated the options at the portal.
Good point!
Could also just use a plain credit card and then pay it down a week or two after the tax pmt is processed...