# Country Tax Rates Lookup

> Country Tax Rates Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from api.strale.io, paid per call via x402, $0.0216/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns corporate tax, VAT, personal income tax, capital gains, and social security rates for a given country by ISO 2-letter code.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.strale.io/x402/country-tax-rates
- Price: $0.0216/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/api-strale-io-86829171
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_v99Uw-ktx1wEsCnaieoDh

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 api-strale-io-86829171
```

Example prompt: What are the corporate tax, VAT, personal income tax, capital gains, and social security rates in Germany?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative, structured tax rate data for a specific country — especially for corporate, VAT, income, capital gains, or social security rates — without scraping government websites or parsing tax authority PDFs. Ideal for financial planning, international expansion research, compliance checks, and tax comparison tasks.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unsupported ISO country code returns an error
- Country not in the 45+ supported list returns no data
- Missing country_code query parameter results in a validation error
- Network/payment failure (x402 protocol issue) prevents the call from completing

## How this service works

Get corporate tax, VAT, personal income tax, capital gains, and social security rates for 45+ countries.

## Output

A structured breakdown of tax rates for the requested country, including corporate tax rate, VAT/GST rate, personal income tax rate, capital gains tax rate, and social security contribution rates — covering 45+ countries.

## Example request

```json
{
 "country_code": "DE"
}
```

## 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",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "country_code"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "country_code": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "ISO 2-letter country code"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

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