# zaref.dev South African Fuel Levies

> zaref.dev South African Fuel Levies is a paid API for AI agents from zaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-15).

Returns current South African fuel levies (general fuel levy, RAF levy, carbon fuel levy) per litre for petrol and diesel, plus the carbon tax rate, with source citation, effective date, and freshness flag.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://zaref.dev/v1/fuel-levies?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-dev-south-african-fuel-levies-054666f5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_4Uy8FflzWkPFmFHgWA9O6

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 zaref-dev-south-african-fuel-levies-054666f5
```

Example prompt: What are the current South African fuel levies per litre — including the general fuel levy, RAF levy, and carbon fuel levy for both petrol and diesel — and is there any temporary relief in place right now?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative, cited South African fuel levy data (general, RAF, carbon) for petrol or diesel pricing calculations, tax compliance, cost modelling, or policy research — especially when you need the official source URL and a freshness signal rather than scraping unofficial sources.

## Known failure modes

- Upstream official source unavailable — stale data may be returned with freshness flag set to false
- Rate not yet updated after a new MPC/budget announcement — effective date may lag by days
- Temporary relief episodes may not be reflected immediately if announced outside regular update cycles

## How this service works

South African Fuel levies (General fuel levy, RAF levy and carbon fuel levy per litre for petrol and diesel, plus the carbon tax rate, including temporary relief episodes.) Clean cited JSON with official source URL, effective date and freshness flag.

## Output

A clean JSON object containing the general fuel levy, RAF levy, and carbon fuel levy rates per litre for petrol and diesel, the carbon tax rate, the effective date these rates apply from, a URL to the official South African government source, and a freshness flag indicating whether the data is current. May also flag any active temporary relief episodes.

## 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": "fuel-levies",
  "source_url": "https://www.sars.gov.za/latest-news/legal-counsel-secondary-legislation-tariff-amendments-2026-6/",
  "effective_date": "2026-07-01"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-dev-south-african-fuel-levies-054666f5/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from zaref.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/zaref.dev/llms.txt)