Set up most bills on autopay and don’t tell anybody! 
I would think quarterly tax payments should cease on death.
In my experience, banks only knows an account owner has died is when someone specifically notified them, usually the executor closing accounts and accumulating them into a probate account (that may not be the correct term).
Butler - that’s interesting.
I do my automated bill paying through the payee, so my electric bill auto pay is set up through them and attached to my bank routing numbers.
I don’t use the bank’s auto-pay system.
So I’m hoping that the bill-pay will continue until the account needs to be closed.
It will. When my sister died an electric bill was in the mail when we went down. I couldn’t access her bank account, but I did have some of her blank checks. She didn’t have anything set up online, so I went in to her electricity providers website and set up an account in her name and set up autopay, giving them her routing adn account number info. Was it wrong of me to do that? Maybe so, but she was in Dallas an the rest of her family was in Kansas and Colorado so trying to tie up loose ends was a little tough. After that is when I set up my checking account to Pay on Death to my daughter, so that she could at least have access to funds (other than hers) to pay my bills with after I pass.
Some of my utilities and insurance accounts allow one-time payments whereby you just have to know the account number and perhaps a zip code and they will let you pay by credit card. I don’t know about ACH.
Um…..yeah…..it was pretty much identity theft. However, this is one of those ask for forgiveness scenarios.
Yeah…wrong, but they got their money, It did make me think though…In the paperwork for my will I has a paper that lists where my accounts are (deposits, retirement, credit card and utility) so my daughter can notify them. I also made my checking account, house and car to be transfer on death to my daughter.
My best friend in Texas passed away a couple of weeks ago. He was 10 days older than me. That made me sit down and imagine what happens after I die. Kind of sobering.