Barclaycard Avios Plus and HMRC

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Hello - I have upgraded to Metal and want to use Fronted to pay an HMRC tax bill backed onto my Barclaycard Avios Plus card. Metal gives your £10,000 pm fee-free Fronted transactions.
But I’m not sure if Barclaycard see this as an “eligible purchase” – I’m after the £10,000 x 1.5 = 15,000 Avios… Anyone have success with this? Or alternatively suggestion to get the Avios at a low fee?

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My Barclaycard Avios stopped working with Curve a couple of months ago with no transactions being authorised. It wasn’t resolved and was one of the reasons I cashed in my Curve Metal account. If you can actually get Curve to work with the Avios MasterCard you’re doing well!!

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Update on this. I made the payment today.

Initially the HMRC payment failed, and then I received a notification in the app, to advise that the daily limit was £7500. Having changed the amount to £7500 it was processed successfully.

With Curve Metal there is a £10k per month fee-free limit for Curve Fronted, so I’ll pay another £2500 tomorrow.

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So I was planning to pay HMRC using Barclaycard Avios Plus with Curve Fronted on. I only have the free card so not fussed about the fee as it’s a small amount.

Did your payments go through ok and not get charged as cash transactions etc?

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I used Curve Metal and payments went through without a problem. No extra fees.

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Did a test payment first and wasn’t charged anything extra by Barclaycard so paid the rest and that was fine too.

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Curve were unable to resolve an issue using Curve with Barclaycard’s Avios card - after a couple of months using it with no problem all transactions were rejected. The game was played with Curve that they said it was a Barclaycard issue which I raised with Barclaycard several times, where you do actually get a sensible response and it is possible to speak in real time to an actual person. They said they had no issue, it went back to Curve, and I never received a resolution. It was, in the end, just too much effort to work with Curve in trying to sort the problem out. Another one of the reasons I got my Metal fee refunded.