EDIT: This article is now out of date. Capital On Tap has relaunched with just one Avios card, Business Rewards, which is better than both of the cards described below. Click here to read our review of Capital On Tap Business Rewards. We still have a higher sign-up bonus for our readers!
Capital On Tap’s Capital Club card is a new payment card for small businesses which offers Avios on your spending.
We covered it in detail here but in summary:
you get 10,000 Capital On Tap points (converts to 5,000 Avios) for signing up and spending £5,000 within 3 months – and HFP readers get a special higher bonus
you get 1 Capital On Tap point for every £1 you spend (converts to 0.5 Avios)
no foreign exchange fees when spending overseas
no ATM fees if withdrawing cash on the card
up to 56 days interest free credit on purchases (minimum monthly repayment is the greater of 10% of balance or £250)
up to 15 free supplementary cards for your staff
The card has an annual fee of £99. This is obviously tax deductible as a business expense. The maximum credit limit on offer is £50,000.
I have now heard from two HFP readers who have successfully used the card to pay HMRC. It appears to go through as a personal debit card and is therefore accepted without any fees. This would allow our self-employed readers to pay their VAT, PAYE, corporation tax and personal tax via Capital On Tap whilst earning 0.5 Avios per £1 spent.
You can learn more about the card in our main article here, which I have updated to include this HMRC information. The application page is here.
If you use promo code headforpoints when signing up, you will receive an additional 500 Capital On Tap points. This is worth an additional 250 Avios.
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The capital on tap card is obviously much better Avios earner than the Tesco current account debit card but…. I’ve been charged £199 for my point earning card this morning? Also, the limit placed on the account is too small for many of my HMRC payments. Is it possible to pre-load the card so if can be used for my HMRC payments?
Can you make smaller but more frequent HMRC payments and pay these down immediately as an alternative to preloading?
If the credit limits are low not really much good for businesses
LATAM flights can be booked via Skyscanner for £1180pp. 2-3-2 on 777 though so not the best seat
Looked at Skyscanner and LHR-SCL is £1,153 on Air France in business in September 2019.
Actually that’s an angle flat seat on a 777 (2-3-2)
I travelled from Sao Paulo to Santiago on a LATAM 787 last week and the seat wasn’t as comfortable as I thought it would be and not very supportive. Also, climbing over the passenger next to you, if they’re reclined, is awkward. I was surprised how tatty the seat was looking with various bits of trim coming away. Although, the service, food and drink was good.
Saying that, I flew back from Santiago on a BA 787 in First and the leather trim on the console had completely worn through, which was surprising.
LATAM is often quite good value, certainly better than the £9200 my ticket cost from London to Rio on BA in Business and return from Santiago (LATAM Rio to Sao Paulo and Sao Paulo to Santiago)!
Uh oh!
I looked at a LH Early Bird special from FRA to SIN for 3 of us, wow, only 30,000 miles RT, what a deal! But the jolly taxes are €498 and a paid ticket would be €715 on my dates. So, I take my business elsewhere once again and buy an AFKL ticket to further my Plat requalification, and use the said M&M miles for hopping around Asia for great value with almost no taxes.
Rob, in the commentary above re the Capital on Tap card, it goes through as a personal Debit Card when linked to Curve, right? Or are you saying it goes through as a personal debit card on its own and doesn’t need linking to curve? I used it twice successfully, but both times linked to Curve. I don’t see Curve mentioned in your commentary above. Might want to clarify that to make it clearer?
You can’t link it to Curve because it is a prepaid debit card, technically.
I’ve linked to Curve without issue. Drinking a tea that I’ve just for using Curve + CapitalOnTap! Great news about HMRC payments working directly though, I was worried about what might happen if Curve go under.
Drinking a tea I’ve just PAID for that should read…
(Rob: editable comments please! Disqus maybe?)
Disqus is rubbish and most people who try it drop it quickly.
Even if not Disqus, than another way to edit comments (and get notifications of later replies to your comments) – these are two necessary features which seem to be in high demand here. Rob – please consider rolling them out at next update. Thanks!
You cannot let comments be edited. It’s like Twitter. It would lead to manipulation.
Notifications on post comments would be a great feature!
or just increasing ‘Recent comments’ from 6 to 10 latest posts
A good practice is to allow comments to be edited for 5 minutes that should mitigate the risk of manipulation, that would allow enough margin to correct typo`s etc which i think people are asking for.
Why?? Using up Curve limit for exactly no reason?
Some sort of commenting accounts feature would be good as currently its difficult to keep up never mind find old/replied to comments past today
No point wasting Curve limit unless you will never come close to it.
Twitter is losing out competition because of that! Facebook introduced editing of comments long time ago, as well as all major messengers and blogging platforms. If you are afraid of “manipulation” (though it’s difficult to see where it could be!), editing could be time-limited, just for people to realise that they made a typo or posted something twice and correct it!
Notifications would help IMMENSELY to keep track of replies to one’s comments or questions in previous posts
I’m using it with curve with no issues
In fact I used it dIrectly with HMRC once but I chose Business Mastercard that time and it charged me a fee. Are you saying if I had chosen Personal mastercard it would have still gone through without any fee? In any case Curve have upped my limits and I’m using it regularly to pay HMRC via Curve with no problems at all.
Just done the Capital Partners app, approved for £6k so that’s probably standard, however as someone earlier mentioned, the option is free or £199. That’s completely different to what the opening page on their website says, where it clearly states £99. That smells dodgy to me as it doesn’t give the option for £99 card. The quickest way to put me off is to play silly buggers, I’m not sure they are even allowed to do this given they are supposedly FCA regulated
I was charged £99 when I opened the account not £199
It will be £99. Will drop them a note.
OT – How do you link the Raddison Reward a/c to Amex for MR points transfer – do you have to put something infront of the a/c number I recall?
I was only able to do it by calling Amex.
You have to add leading zero`s but agree with Tim, call them up the agents are used to the workaround (but hang up if routed to manilla)
I can’t remember which numbers you miss off but I think the help box or the full information on right hand side of the screen tell you which numbers to pop into the website. Of course, I only spotted this after the helpful chap in Brighton told me what to do!
I ended up calling Amex as I had the same problem and they guy who did it for me said he needed to knock off the first 6 numbers.
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OT Looking to status match IHG Spire Elite to Hilton Platinum. There seems to be a mixed approach from Hilton looking at Statusmatcher feedback. Some people seem to receive Platinum immediately, others are given a challenge. I’m currently gold not sure if this makes a difference? Anyone have any
experience? If I’m given a challenge do point stays count?
You get both. 90 day match with a challenge to keep it.
Do points stays count towards the challenge?
Hope so, I’m on a 10 stay Diamond challenge now and have used point & cash rather than full points for 2 stays so far (9 completed by next week for end of March deadline) as should meet the paid stays criteria in the original HH status challenge email.
Paul – do you get one year at the new status from the the last date of your 10th stay? Or is it from the start of your challenge?
Challenge started 2/1/19 and Diamond will run to 31/3/20 when I am successful as per original email.
Yes
I am Gold Rob and was told during present challenge from Gold to Diamond that Diamond benefits only granted at the end of the challenge and not during the 90 days period.
Rob – if I’m matching from IHG could my challenge be less than Paul’s 10 nights?
The Hilton deal is non-negotiable – https://statusmatch.hiltonhonors.com/
When I took the challenge I was told the same bit I said that was not good enough as I had an expensive resort stay coming up during the challenge period. They reacted well and made me diamond straight away (but still on the challenge of course).
Rubbish, as soon as I applied I was upgraded to Diamond (email confirmation – keep it too as had an argument with them in Dubai) and had Diamond status for the 8 stays I had to do
For the next 90 days, get a taste of the elite life with Hilton Honors and enjoy the highest earning potential out there.
I just called Capital on Tap and they told me it is now £199. They said they changed it. Even though their website still says clearly £99 and no mention of £199 until you have already applied.
They told me to email them directly and state what has happened and someone will see if they will do the £99 fee. Not a great start.
Website now says £199
Ok. Let me explain. COT is launching a 2nd Avios card imminently. I didn’t know the terms but the fee is higher with better earning. It seems they may be doing it this weekend without telling me.
Rob, please can you also find out if those who got the £99 card can upgrade to the £199 card for the better Avios and higher sign-up bonus if we are within the 3 months? Thank you.
Will do. It seems they are still experimenting and have asked me not to cover the new card until everything is locked down in a couple of weeks.
I just signed up and it gave me two options. A no-bonus standard account or the “club” account but the terms were £199 fee for 20000 points (once u spend 5k) and points were 1:1. Didn’t see an option for the £99 card. I think it’s still good value though right? Annoyed if u can’t link to Xero or curve tho! I’m no adverse to using a non biz card for my company expenses so maybe something else would be better, but the idea of being able to pay corporation tax is appealing and it’s good to have a backup to the Amex now that curve wont support it
Good value @£199? That will depend on how much you pay HMRC. [HfP has repeated that despite the £199 appearing in places, it *will* only be £99 as per home page.]
So if you can’t get points from your payments to HMRC any other way & pay in hefty amounts, the £99/£199? fee could easily be covered many times over, partly by the introductory bonus (5250 Avios)
Paul – do you get one year at the new status from the the last date of your 10th stay? Or is it from the start of your challenge?