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The Income Tax e-filing portal (incometax.gov.in) caps most document uploads at 500 KB or 1 MB depending on the form. This page is preset to compress your PDF to 500 KB — covering Form 16, ITR proof attachments, rectification requests, and grievance uploads.
Most Indian government portals (UPSC, SSC, Railways, Banks) require PDFs under 200 KB or 500 KB. Enter your portal's exact limit below. For scanned or image-heavy PDFs, PDF Image Compressor gives much better results.
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Tip: Tax PDFs (Form 16, ITR-V, 26AS) often arrive password-protected. Use our ITR PDF Password Remover first if your file is still locked.
Most upload fields on incometax.gov.in cap PDFs at 500 KB. Some grievance and rectification flows allow up to 1 MB. The portal will show the exact limit on each upload field.
Not directly — remove the password first using our ITR PDF Password Remover (PAN-lowercase + DOB), then bring the unlocked PDF back here to compress.
Yes. Everything runs locally in your browser — your tax documents never get uploaded to any server. This is one of the main reasons SortMyPDF exists.