# AbstractAPI VAT Categories

> AbstractAPI VAT Categories is a paid API for AI agents from VAT at abstract-vat.mpp.paywithlocus.com, paid per call via MPP, $0.006/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Returns all VAT product/service categories and their applicable tax rates for a given EU country

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://abstract-vat.mpp.paywithlocus.com/abstract-vat/categories?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.006/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: VAT
- Docs: https://docs.abstractapi.com/api/vat-validation
- Website: https://www.abstractapi.com/api/vat-validation-rates-api
- Tags: vat, tax, eu-compliance, data
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/vat-categories-7ae58ec3
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_gTfetbDi0yQlw658P8FFx

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 vat-categories-7ae58ec3 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What are all the VAT categories and their tax rates for France? I need the full list so I can correctly classify my products for EU tax compliance.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a comprehensive list of all VAT categories and their rates for a specific EU country — ideal for e-commerce platforms, accounting software, or compliance tools that need to classify products/services into the correct tax bracket. Prefer this over the Calculate endpoint when you need to enumerate available categories rather than compute a specific tax amount.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unsupported country_code returns an error or empty dataset
- Non-EU country code may return no categories
- Missing required country_code field returns a validation error
- Rate-limit exceeded returns HTTP 429

## How this service works

Categories

## Output

An array of VAT category objects for the specified country, each containing the category name (e.g. 'accommodation', 'newspapers', 'admission to sporting events'), the applicable VAT rate as a decimal string (e.g. '0.100' for 10%), a detailed description of what qualifies under that category, and the country code.

## Example request

```json
{
 "country_code": "FR"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/vat-categories-7ae58ec3/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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