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SARS eFiling is the official online tax returns submission portal for the South African Revenue Service launched originally in 2001 via third-party companies, then expanded and taken in-house by SARS in 2006
https://secure.sarsefiling.co.za/landing

0 recorded outage reports in the displayed 24-hour window.

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The public website responded; signed-in features and APIs were not tested.

Estimated down reports for Sars efiling — last 24 hours

Not enough Google Trends data is available for this service yet.

No user-submitted outage reports in the last 24 hours.

Sars efiling website uptime and response time

Website responded successfully HTTP 200. Last checked 2026-10-19 04:48:35 UTC.

Checked address: https://secure.sarsefiling.co.za/landing

DNS lookup: 151 ms · TCP connection: 2 ms · TLS handshake: 7 ms. Certificate expires 2026-12-10; trusted connection: yes.

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Successful website checks (24h)
2 successful / 2 measurable checks

385 ms
Median response time

410 ms
95th percentile response time

Successful website response times, 0 to 410 milliseconds410 ms0 ms2026-10-19T04:48:35.000Z: 410 ms2026-10-19T03:31:16.000Z: 385 ms

0 failed checks; 0 restricted checks. Restricted checks are excluded from the success rate. Gaps are unknown. Response time measures receipt of HTTP headers, not full page load. Checks run from one US monitoring server and do not verify sign-in, API, or app features. These sampled results are separate from down reports and Google activity.

Evidence behind the status

Website reachable in latest check. The public website responded; signed-in features and APIs were not tested.

  • Official provider feed: not available for this service.
  • Direct website measurements: 2 checks in the last 24 hours.
  • Google Trends estimate: 0 samples; last checked Unknown.
  • Autocomplete: 0 recent query observations. Suggestions are not individual down reports.

Sources measure different things. A reachable homepage can coexist with login or API failures. Missing evidence stays unknown.

Official component status

No mapped official components are available for this product. Parent-company status is not substituted for product status.

Official incident timeline

No product-matched incidents are available in the collected provider history. This does not prove that no incident occurred.

Recovery tracker

No recent recovery can be established from available evidence.

0 consecutive successful checks within the last 30 minutes. These checks measure the public website; they cannot establish recovery of every feature.

Slowdown detection

More successful checks are needed to establish a response-time baseline.

Recent median: unknown · Earlier median: 410 ms. Flags require at least 3 recent and 5 earlier checks, more than twice the baseline, and at least 500 ms extra latency. Slowness alone does not identify server load as the cause.

Emerging down-report signals

No recent problem-related autocomplete suggestions have been collected for this service.

US English Google autocomplete suggestions help discover problem patterns. They can persist after an incident and do not measure report counts or prove an outage. New phrases require corroboration before accelerating Trends collection.

Is it down in your region?

Run one public website check from a community probe. Results describe that probe, not every user in a country.

Powered by Globalping. Results are reused for 15 minutes. Shared free allowance: up to 60 tests per hour. A successful website check does not verify authenticated app or API functions.

Infrastructure incident context

Check whether broader platform incidents coincide with the problem you are seeing. These providers are context, not verified dependencies of Sars efiling.

GitHub official status · 2026-10-19 05:44:32 UTC

No active incidents in this collected feed.


More about Sars efiling service

SARS eFiling is the official online tax returns submission portal for the South African Revenue Service launched originally in 2001 via third-party companies, then expanded and taken in-house by SARS in 2006. In the 2015/2016 tax year SARS eFiling processed 36.80 million electronic submissions and payments which equates to 98.7% of all submissions and payments to SARS in South Africa.



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