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E-tax firewall configuration details

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If you are a systems administrator and want to configure your firewall to allow access to the Tax Office website for the download of e-tax and for the verification and lodgment of e-tax returns, refer to the details below.

To download the e-tax software, access to http port 80 must be enabled:

http://www.ato.gov.au IP 203.202.41.1

For verification and lodgment, access to https via port 443 must be enabled:

  • https://verification09.etax.ato.gov.au IP 203.202.41.104
  • https://lodgement09.etax.ato.gov.au IP 203.202.41.103

Data is transmitted using 128 bit SSL encryption.

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E-tax attempts to connect directly to the internet, bypassing proxy servers.

Last Modified: Tuesday, 30 June 2009

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