If You are planning to file income tax return in 2025, then you must be updated about the approved bank for e filing your tax return and to get refund. Check here the updated list in 2025
The Income Tax Department is always try to make tax stuff easier for us. So, to help pay your taxes online super smoothly, the e-filing portal’s “e-Pay Tax” service has bunch of approved banks. You can totally pay your income tax, advance tax, TDS/TCS, and all those other direct tax bills using the online payment options these banks offer.
This update’s got the full list of banks that are currently set up for tax payments through the e-Pay Tax service on the e-Filing portal. Just remember, this list can change, like, whenever the Income Tax Department decides to update it.
Various methods of payments
You can use these payment methods through the banks that are on the list:
- Net Banking: Pay right from your bank account.
- Debit Card: Use your debit card, easy peasy.
- Credit Card: Pay with your credit card (through a payment gateway, ya know).
- UPI: Instant payments with UPI (also through a payment gateway).
- Pay at Bank Counter (Over-the-Counter): Print out a challan online, then go pay cash or cheque at a bank branch.
Banks You Can Use for e-Pay Tax on the e-Filing Portal
As of June 10, 2025, these are the banks that are integrated with the e-Pay Tax service for paying taxes online. This list includes both the old banks and some new ones they’ve added:
| S. No. | Bank Name | Category (New/Migrated) | Date of Enablement (if specified) |
| 1. | Axis Bank | Migrated Bank | November 01, 2022 |
| 2. | Bandhan Bank | New Bank | July 12, 2023 |
| 3. | Bank of Baroda | Migrated Bank | February 01, 2023 |
| 4. | Bank of India | Migrated Bank | September 01, 2022 |
| 5. | Bank of Maharashtra | Migrated Bank | October 01, 2022 |
| 6. | Canara Bank | Migrated Bank | October 01, 2022 |
| 7. | Central Bank of India | Migrated Bank | November 01, 2022 |
| 8. | City Union Bank | New Bank | January 01, 2023 |
| 9. | DCB Bank | New Bank | June 16, 2023 |
| 10. | Dhanlaxmi Bank | New Bank | June 26, 2024 |
| 11. | Federal Bank | New Bank | July 01, 2022 |
| 12. | HDFC Bank | Migrated Bank | April 01, 2023 |
| 13. | ICICI Bank | Migrated Bank | November 01, 2022 |
| 14. | IDBI Bank | Migrated Bank | January 01, 2023 |
| 15. | IDFC First Bank | New Bank | November 27, 2024 |
| 16. | Indian Bank | Migrated Bank | November 01, 2022 |
| 17. | Indian Overseas Bank | Migrated Bank | October 01, 2022 |
| 18. | IndusInd Bank | New Bank | January 07, 2023 |
| 19. | Jammu & Kashmir Bank | Migrated Bank | January 01, 2023 |
| 20. | Karnataka Bank | New Bank | December 13, 2023 |
| 21. | Karur Vysya Bank | New Bank | October 01, 2022 |
| 22. | Kotak Mahindra Bank | New Bank | July 01, 2022 |
| 23. | Punjab National Bank | Migrated Bank | December 01, 2022 |
| 24. | Punjab & Sind Bank | Migrated Bank | April 01, 2023 |
| 25. | RBL Bank | New Bank | April 28, 2023 |
| 26. | South Indian Bank | New Bank | March 22, 2023 |
| 27. | State Bank of India | Migrated Bank | April 01, 2023 |
| 28. | Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Ltd. | New Bank | March 05, 2025 |
| 29. | UCO Bank | Migrated Bank | January 01, 2023 |
| 30. | Union Bank of India | Migrated Bank | January 01, 2023 |
Important Things You Should Know:
- Gotta Generate Challan: When you’re using the e-Pay Tax service on the e-Filing portal, you absolutely have to get a Challan Reference Number (CRN) for your direct tax payment. Every challan you make will have its own unique CRN.
- Login or Not: You can get to the e-Pay Tax stuff either before you login (it’s under “Quick Links” on the homepage) or after you login on the Income Tax e-Filing portal (www.incometax.gov.in).
- If Your Bank Ain’t There: If your bank isn’t on the list for Net Banking, no worries! You can still pay your taxes using NEFT/RTGS or by picking the Payment Gateway option, which might have other banks. Right now, the Payment Gateway option supports banks like Canara Bank, Federal Bank, HDFC Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Bank of Maharashtra, and State Bank of India.
- Check Your Payments: After you’ve paid successfully, all your payment deets and the Challan Receipt will be chilling under the “Payment History” tab on the e-Pay Tax page of the e-Filing portal.
For more info and how-to guides on using the e-Pay Tax service, just head over to the official Income Tax Department e-Filing portal: www.incometax.gov.in
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