TaxJar Rates API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: TaxJar Sales Tax Categories Rates API
  description: REST API for real-time sales tax calculation, rooftop-level rate lookups, tax category listing, transaction management (orders and refunds), customer exemption management, nexus region tracking, address validation, and VAT validation. Supports token-based authentication via Authorization header. TaxJar is a Stripe company providing sub-20ms response times and 99.999% historical uptime.
  version: '2.0'
  contact:
    name: TaxJar Developer Support
    url: https://support.taxjar.com/category/233-taxjar-api
  termsOfService: https://www.taxjar.com/terms/
  x-api-id: taxjar-sales-tax
servers:
- url: https://api.taxjar.com/v2
  description: Production
- url: https://api.sandbox.taxjar.com/v2
  description: Sandbox
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Rates
  description: Sales tax rate lookups
paths:
  /rates/{zip}:
    get:
      operationId: getRatesForLocation
      summary: Show tax rates for a location
      description: Returns the sales tax rates for a given location by postal code. Supports US and international locations. For US lookups, returns state, county, city, and special district rates.
      tags:
      - Rates
      parameters:
      - name: zip
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Postal code for the location
        schema:
          type: string
        example: '90002'
      - name: country
        in: query
        description: Two-letter ISO country code
        schema:
          type: string
        example: US
      - name: state
        in: query
        description: Two-letter state/province code
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: city
        in: query
        description: City name
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: street
        in: query
        description: Street address
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Tax rates for the location
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  rate:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/Rate'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
components:
  responses:
    BadRequest:
      description: Bad request - invalid parameters
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    Unauthorized:
      description: Unauthorized - invalid or missing API token
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  schemas:
    Rate:
      type: object
      properties:
        zip:
          type: string
          description: Postal code
          example: '90002'
        state:
          type: string
          description: Two-letter state code
          example: CA
        state_rate:
          type: number
          format: float
          description: State sales tax rate
          example: 0.065
        county:
          type: string
          description: County name
          example: LOS ANGELES
        county_rate:
          type: number
          format: float
          description: County sales tax rate
          example: 0.01
        city:
          type: string
          description: City name
          example: WATTS
        city_rate:
          type: number
          format: float
          description: City sales tax rate
          example: 0.0
        combined_district_rate:
          type: number
          format: float
          description: Combined special district rate
          example: 0.025
        combined_rate:
          type: number
          format: float
          description: Total combined sales tax rate
          example: 0.1
        freight_taxable:
          type: boolean
          description: Whether shipping is taxable in this location
          example: false
        country:
          type: string
          description: Two-letter country code (international)
        name:
          type: string
          description: Region name (international)
        country_rate:
          type: number
          format: float
          description: Country tax rate (Australia and SST states)
        standard_rate:
          type: number
          format: float
          description: Standard VAT rate (EU)
        reduced_rate:
          type: number
          format: float
          description: Reduced VAT rate (EU)
        super_reduced_rate:
          type: number
          format: float
          description: Super-reduced VAT rate (EU)
        parking_rate:
          type: number
          format: float
          description: Parking VAT rate (EU)
        distance_sale_threshold:
          type: number
          format: float
          description: Distance sale threshold (EU)
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: Error type
        detail:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable error detail
        status:
          type: integer
          description: HTTP status code
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: 'Use your TaxJar API token. Format: "Bearer [token]" or "Token token=[token]"'