What we check for Income Tax Portal
Every five minutes we request the e-filing home page at incometax.gov.in. The check records the HTTP code and response time and nothing else: it does not sign in, move money or open the app.
All service status
Checked every 5 minutes
Is Income Tax Portal Down?
Our server checks www.incometax.gov.in every five minutes. Below is the latest result, the past 24 hours, and how many visitors reported trouble with Income Tax Portal in the last hour.
GOVERNMENT · LIVE STATUS
Income Tax Portal status right now
LATEST AUTOMATED CHECK
Income Tax Portal was online at our last check
Checked 1 minute ago: www.incometax.gov.in replied normally with HTTP 200 in 1,556 ms.
- Answered, last 24 h
- 100%
- Average response
- 1,681 ms
- Checks, last 24 h
- 25
- Address checked
- www.incometax.gov.in
Is Income Tax Portal failing for you?
0 reports in the last hour, 0 in the last 24 hours.
One report per visitor per hour. The counts are real button presses on this page and nothing else.
Our checks over the last 24 hours
- 14:30 to 15:30 IST: no checks
- 15:30 to 16:30 IST: no checks
- 16:30 to 17:30 IST: no checks
- 17:30 to 18:30 IST: no checks
- 18:30 to 19:30 IST: no checks
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- 09:30 to 10:30 IST: no checks
- 10:30 to 11:30 IST: no checks
- 11:30 to 12:30 IST: 11 of 11 checks answered, average 1,672 ms
- 12:30 to 13:30 IST: 12 of 12 checks answered, average 1,699 ms
- 13:30 to 14:30 IST: 2 of 2 checks answered, average 1,625 ms
- All answered
- Some failed
- All failed
- No data
| Time (IST) | Result | HTTP | Response |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Oct, 13:35 | Online | 200 | 1,556 ms |
| 17 Oct, 13:30 | Online | 200 | 1,695 ms |
| 17 Oct, 13:25 | Online | 200 | 1,440 ms |
| 17 Oct, 13:20 | Online | 200 | 1,852 ms |
| 17 Oct, 13:15 | Online | 200 | 1,682 ms |
| 17 Oct, 13:10 | Online | 200 | 1,871 ms |
| 17 Oct, 13:05 | Online | 200 | 1,485 ms |
| 17 Oct, 13:00 | Online | 200 | 1,665 ms |
| 17 Oct, 12:55 | Online | 200 | 1,729 ms |
| 17 Oct, 12:50 | Online | 200 | 1,627 ms |
| 17 Oct, 12:45 | Online | 200 | 1,797 ms |
| 17 Oct, 12:40 | Online | 200 | 1,640 ms |
Checked from one VPSLake server outside India. To test any other website live, use the Website Down Checker.
HOW TO USE IT
Read this page in four steps
Everything above updates on its own. Reload the page for the newest result.
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Start with the latest check
The coloured box says whether www.incometax.gov.in answered our last request, with the HTTP code, the response time and how long ago it ran.
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Look at the 24-hour strip
Each block is one hour: green when every check answered, gold when some failed, red when all failed. One gold block is often a short blip; several red blocks in a row mean a real outage.
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Compare with visitor reports
If the site check is fine but reports are climbing, the problem is probably in the app, payments or the network rather than the website.
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Report it or get official help
Press Report a problem if Income Tax Portal fails for you, then use the official links further down for updates or a complaint.
What to try when Income Tax Portal is not working
The weeks before the July ITR deadline and the advance-tax dates are the busiest. When the site opens but login fails, the Aadhaar OTP step is the usual culprit: wait for the SMS, then try a private browser window so old cookies do not interfere.
Official Income Tax Portal help
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Income Tax Portal Status FAQ
At 13:35 IST on 17 Oct, www.incometax.gov.in replied normally with HTTP 200 in 1,556 ms. In the past hour 0 visitors reported a problem with Income Tax Portal here. The check repeats every five minutes.
Every five minutes our server requests the e-filing home page at incometax.gov.in. It records whether an answer arrived, the HTTP status and the response time, and keeps seven days of results. It does not log in, pay, or use the mobile app.
A working public website does not guarantee that logins, payments, the app or your own connection are fine. Try mobile data instead of Wi-Fi, update the app, and press Report a problem so others can see it is not only them. Several reports within the same hour usually point to a genuine outage.
The weeks before the July ITR deadline and the advance-tax dates are the busiest. When the site opens but login fails, the Aadhaar OTP step is the usual culprit: wait for the SMS, then try a private browser window so old cookies do not interfere.
No. The report saves the service, the time and a salted one-way hash that only stops the same visitor being counted twice in an hour. The hash is wiped after an hour and the report itself after seven days.
No. VPSLake runs this as an independent check and has no link with Income Tax Portal. For official updates use the help links on this page.