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afriref Payroll Reference Data
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afriref Payroll Reference Data is a paid API for AI agents from afriref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Returns authoritative payroll-relevant government reference values (central-bank policy rates, VAT rates, national minimum wages, public holidays) for 11 African countries as clean JSON with official citations.
Price / call$0.005
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How this service works
Authoritative Pan-African government reference values as clean JSON: central-bank policy rates, VAT rates, national minimum wages and public holidays for Côte d'Ivoire (ci), Egypt (eg), Ethiopia (et), Ghana (gh), Kenya (ke), Morocco (ma), Nigeria (ng), Rwanda (rw), Senegal (sn), Tanzania (tz), Uganda (ug). Every value carries a citation to its official primary source (government gazette or central-bank statement), an effective date, a last-confirmed date and a staleness flag.
Output
A JSON object containing the requested government reference value (e.g. policy rate, VAT rate, minimum wage, or public holidays) for the specified African country, along with the numeric value and unit, effective date, last-confirmed date, a staleness flag, and a citation object pointing to the official primary source (government gazette or central bank statement), plus a disclaimer note.
Example use cases
Payroll compliance check for Kenya
“I'm setting up payroll for employees in Kenya — can you pull the current VAT rate, minimum wage, and any public holidays I need to account for, all with official government citations?”
Multi-country tax rate comparison
“I need to compare the current VAT rates across Nigeria, Ghana, and Egypt for a report — can you get me the authoritative figures with their effective dates and sources?”
Central bank rate alert for BCEAO countries
“What is the current BCEAO central bank policy rate that applies to Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal, and when was it last confirmed — is the data still fresh?”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://afriref.dev/v1/answers/payrollWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need authoritative, cited, machine-readable payroll and compliance reference data (policy rates, VAT, minimum wage, public holidays) for one of the 11 supported African countries and require traceable official sources rather than scraped or uncited figures. It is especially valuable for payroll automation, compliance validation, or regulatory reporting pipelines targeting African markets.
Side effects
- Unsupported country code returns an error or empty result
- Requested data series not available for the given country
- Data marked as stale when last-confirmed date exceeds threshold
- Network or upstream error returning non-200 response
- Rate-limit or payment failure (x402 payment required)
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| properties | string |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"unit": "percent",
"notes": "SHARED BCEAO/UEMOA rate — this is NOT an Ivorian national rate; the same figure applies to all 8 union members (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinée-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Sénégal, Togo). The CPM of 4 March 2026 cut the principal rate 25bps from 3.25% to 3.00% (and the marginal lending facility from 5.25% to 5.00%), effective 16 March 2026; the 3.0000% level is corroborated by the weekly liquidity-injection notice of 8 June 2026. Reserve requirement coefficient held at 3.0%. The CPM meets quarterly (roughly March/June/September/December) — re-verify after each meeting.",
"stale": false,
"value": 3,
"series": "policy-rate",
"source": {
"url": "https://www.bceao.int/fr/communique-presse/reunion-ordinaire-du-comite-de-politique-monetaire-de-la-bceao-tenue-le-4-mars",
"name": "BCEAO — Communiqué de presse, réunion ordinaire du CPM tenue le 4 mars 2026 (-25bps, effet 16 mars 2026)"
},
"country": "CI",
"disclaimer": "Independent service, not affiliated with any government. Verify against the cited official source before legal or financial use.",
"effective_from": "2026-03-16",
"last_confirmed": "2026-07-15"
}
}Tags
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