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Is HMRC down?

Something is off: our checks are slower than usual or had a single recent failure.

What's broken? (optional)
Is it just me?
Degraded performance

What to try while HMRC is having problems

Estimated fix: Not enough HMRC history yet; similar Government outages lasted 9 min (median, typically 8 min–18 min; 200 outages).

  • Try again outside peak hours; paper or phone options usually stay available.

Live diagnosis

Is it just me?

Finds which layer is broken (the service, its provider, your ISP, DNS, or your own network) and what to try.

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Our checksSlow or flaky
Official · ReportsNo status feed · Near baseline
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Live outage map

No reports in the last 24 hours.

Dots are whole states, provinces or countries, never exact locations. We never store IP addresses, and places with fewer than 3 reports are not shown. Updates every minute.

User reports

0

Near baseline. 0 in the last hour. Typical hour is about 0.

Our checks

Slow or flaky

Last check reached it in 2537 ms · 7 min ago.

Official status

No status feed

HMRC does not publish a status feed we can read.

Reports and checks

Reports compared with the typical volume, with check latency and failures overlaid10400 msOct 6Oct 13Oct 21Oct 28Nov 4
ReportsTypical baselineCheck latencyFailed checkTimes in UTC
Numbers behind the chart
Time (UTC)ReportsBaselineLatencyFailed checks
Nov 400.0400 ms0

Reliability

Score —/100 · grade —

—Uptime · 30 days
—Uptime · 90 days
0 / 0Outages · 30 / 90 days
—Average outage

90 days ago → today. Uptime is from our own HTTP checks; outages are incidents that lasted long enough to list. We have 1 days of data so far, so the 90-day numbers fill in over time.

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Past outages

No outages on record for HMRC yet. Outages of 10 minutes or more get their own page here.

All HMRC outages · Every recent outage

Having trouble with HMRC?

One report per service every 10 minutes from this network. No account.

What's broken? (optional)

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About HMRC

HMRC is listed in our Government category and checked at gov.uk. HMRC is the UK tax authority; its online services handle Self Assessment and PAYE.

HMRC has no official status feed we can read, so this page relies on our own checks and user reports.

What usually goes wrong with HMRC: Self Assessment login errors near the 31 January deadline, payments failing, and service downtime.

Response time over the last 24 hours: 807 ms average, 25–2809 ms range across 21 successful checks.

Questions

Is HMRC down right now?

Something is off: our checks are slower than usual or had a single recent failure.

How fast does HMRC respond?

807 ms on average over the last 24 hours (25–2809 ms).

Does HMRC have an official status page?

Not one we can read. This page uses independent checks of gov.uk and user reports.

HMRC not working for me but the status is fine. What now?

It is usually local: try another browser or the app, switch between Wi-Fi and mobile data, and clear the cache. For HMRC, watch for Self Assessment login errors near the 31 January deadline, payments failing, and service downtime. If many people report HMRC here at once, the problem is on HMRC's side.