# zaref.dev South African Personal Income Tax Tables

> zaref.dev South African Personal Income Tax Tables is a paid API for AI agents from zaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-17).

Returns the current South African personal income tax brackets, rebates, and thresholds for the active SARS tax year as clean, cited JSON with source URL and freshness metadata.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://zaref.dev/v1/income-tax?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-17
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-dev-south-african-personal-income-tax-tables-46ab5669
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Mui9FloXu18tEJYF9Yxls

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-personal-income-tax-tables-46ab5669
```

Example prompt: What are the current South African personal income tax brackets, rebates, and thresholds for this tax year? I need the official figures with the source and effective date.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative, machine-readable South African personal income tax tables with cited provenance and a freshness guarantee, especially in financial calculations, payroll tools, or tax advisory workflows where accuracy and traceability to official SARS sources matter.

## Known failure modes

- Service unavailable if zaref.dev is down (5xx)
- Data may lag briefly after SARS publishes a new budget announcement before the freshness flag updates
- Payment failure if x402 USDC micropayment of $0.002 is not properly handled

## How this service works

South African Income tax tables (Personal income tax brackets, rebates and thresholds for the current SA tax year.) Clean cited JSON with official source URL, effective date and freshness flag.

## Output

A JSON object containing the current SA personal income tax brackets (taxable income bands and marginal rates), primary/secondary/tertiary rebate amounts, tax threshold amounts, the effective date of the data, an official SARS source URL, and a freshness flag indicating whether the data is current.

## 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": "income-tax",
  "source_url": "https://www.sars.gov.za/tax-rates/income-tax/rates-of-tax-for-individuals/",
  "effective_date": "2026-03-01"
 }
}
```

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