Outage report · Partial outage
Xero outage on Aug 30, 2026
Australia: Xero Tax - customers are experiencing issues with prefilling and lodging tax returns to the ATO
What happened
Xero reported a partial outage starting Aug 30, 2026, 20:21 UTC, affecting Xero Tax (AU). It was marked resolved at Aug 30, 2026, 22:39 UTC.
- The incident lasted 2h 18m from first report to resolution.
- Xero had reported 3 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
- 1 other vendor we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.
Latest update from Xero
ATO has resolved the issue causing errors for AU customers when using prefill or lodge tax returns from Xero Tax.
What our independent monitoring saw
Our independent monitoring of Xero started after this incident, so this report is based on Xero's status page.
Other outages around the same time
Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.
Xero's overall reliability
Xero has a reliability score of 48.6/100, with 98.61% effective uptime and 27 incidents over the last 90 days.
Visit Xero ↗Full Xero reliability report and live status → · Most reliable Xero alternatives →
Get Xero outage alerts
We'll email you when Xero reports a partial or major outage, and when it's fixed. Free, and you can stop any time.