# SARS Travel Reimbursement Rates (South Africa)

> SARS Travel Reimbursement Rates (South Africa) is a paid API for AI agents from zaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns the current SARS-prescribed per-kilometre reimbursement rate and subsistence allowances for the current South African tax year, with official source citation and freshness metadata.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://zaref.dev/v1/travel-rates
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/sars-travel-reimbursement-rates-south-africa-919fe155
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_x-1MjCA1PNG0DaPE0VntW

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 sars-travel-reimbursement-rates-south-africa-919fe155
```

Example prompt: What is the current SARS prescribed per-kilometre reimbursement rate and subsistence allowances for this tax year in South Africa, and when did they come into effect?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need the official, cited SARS-prescribed per-km travel reimbursement rate or subsistence allowances for South African payroll, expense management, or tax compliance purposes. Prefer this over general web search when you need a machine-readable, structured response with source citation and a freshness indicator for the current tax year.

## Known failure modes

- Rate data not yet updated for new tax year — freshness flag will indicate stale data
- Network or service unavailability returning a non-200 HTTP status
- Payment failure via x402 protocol preventing access to the endpoint
- Upstream SARS source changes format causing parsing errors

## How this service works

South African SARS travel rates (SARS prescribed per-km reimbursement rate and subsistence allowances for the current tax year.) Clean cited JSON with official source URL, effective date and freshness flag.

## Output

A JSON object containing the SARS-prescribed per-km reimbursement rate, subsistence allowances, the effective date, the current tax year, the official SARS source URL, and a freshness flag indicating whether the data is up to date.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": "current values with citations",
  "stale": false,
  "series": "travel-rates",
  "source_url": "https://www.treasury.gov.za/documents/national%20budget/2026/sars/Budget%202026%20Tax%20guide.pdf",
  "effective_date": "2026-03-01"
 }
}
```

## More

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