～ている所(ところ)だIn the process of doing ~ right now/at this moment

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  matt_in_mito

  払っていたところ is also acceptable but generally in Japanese the tense of a sentence only comes at the end.
  The same can be said for levels of politeness - i.e. use plain form throughout a long sentence and stick ます on the end to make it polite.

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  mrnoone

  Hey and welcome on the community forums @Jl45

  Like @matt_in_mito said, usually in Japanese tense of the sentence is determined at the end. Like in this case, whether you use ている and ていた the meaning is the same, the interlocutor picks the tense from the context.

  Though there are cases when you are forced to use certain forms, like past form before あと or
  non-past before 前,

  By the way, read this post:
  

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  Scyamntic

  Indeed it does!
  いつも手伝ってくれてありがとうな！