# agentshield.live VAT Rate Lookup

> agentshield.live VAT Rate Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from agentshield.live, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-22).

Returns the standard VAT (Value Added Tax) rate percentage for a given country on a specified date.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agentshield.live/vat?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-22
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentshield-live-vat-rate-lookup-724ca8a9
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_HabC_xpIR5_kGPGCkKtDK

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability agentshield-live-vat-rate-lookup-724ca8a9
```

Example prompt: What is the standard VAT rate in Germany as of January 1, 2023?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a quick, lightweight lookup of the standard VAT rate for a country and optionally a historical date. It is ideal for e-commerce tax calculation pipelines, invoice generation, compliance auditing, or pricing tools that need to display or apply the correct VAT percentage. It does not determine product-specific reduced or zero rates — only the standard rate.

## Known failure modes

- Unsupported or invalid two-letter country code returns an error
- Date format not matching YYYY-MM-DD may result in a parse error
- Country not covered by the dataset may return a not-found or null response
- Network or payment authorization failure returns a 402 or connectivity error

## How this service works

Call when an agent needs the standard VAT rate for a country on a date. Returns the standard percent only. Does not decide which rate applies to a product.

## Output

Returns a single numeric value representing the standard VAT rate percentage for the requested country on the given date (or current date if no date is specified).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "country"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "date": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "YYYY-MM-DD. Optional."
      },
      "country": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Two-letter country code, such as DE."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentshield-live-vat-rate-lookup-724ca8a9/health.json
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