# Financial Year & Tax Filing Dates by Country

> Financial Year & Tax Filing Dates by Country is a paid API for AI agents from api.strale.io, paid per call via x402, $0.0216/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns fiscal year start/end dates, tax filing deadlines, and VAT filing frequency for a given country using its ISO 2-letter code, covering 42+ countries.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.strale.io/x402/financial-year-dates
- Price: $0.0216/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/api-strale-io-ca144631
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_U0tVDzbedUmjWPF4QnIU7

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-ca144631
```

Example prompt: What are the fiscal year start and end dates, tax filing deadlines, and VAT filing frequency for Germany?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative fiscal year boundaries, tax deadlines, or VAT filing schedules for a specific country and want a single structured API call rather than scraping government websites or tax authority portals. Especially valuable for multi-country compliance workflows or building international financial calendars.

## Known failure modes

- Unsupported or invalid country code returns an error or empty result
- Country code not in the 42+ supported countries list
- Malformed or missing country_code query parameter causes a 400-level error
- Network or service unavailability returns a 5xx error

## How this service works

Get fiscal year start/end, tax filing deadlines, VAT filing frequency for 42+ countries.

## Output

Returns structured data including the fiscal year start date, fiscal year end date, corporate/income tax filing deadlines, and VAT filing frequency for the requested country.

## 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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