# zaref.dev South African Retirement & TFSA Limits

> zaref.dev South African Retirement & TFSA Limits is a paid API for AI agents from zaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-16).

Returns current South African retirement contribution deduction caps, tax-free savings account limits, retirement and withdrawal lump-sum tax tables, and living-annuity thresholds as clean, cited JSON with official source URLs, effective dates, and freshness flags.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://zaref.dev/v1/retirement-limits?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-dev-south-african-retirement-tfsa-limits-28b6d9f1
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_yI3qJ6y4iMhqZWcybqm1g

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-retirement-tfsa-limits-28b6d9f1
```

Example prompt: What are the current South African retirement contribution deduction limits, TFSA annual and lifetime caps, and the lump-sum tax tables — and can you tell me when those figures were last updated and where SARS published them?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative, cited, and machine-readable South African retirement and TFSA tax limits — especially when building financial planning tools, tax calculators, or compliance checks that require the official source URL and effective date rather than scraped or manually maintained values. Prefer this over general search or web scraping when freshness and citation provenance are important.

## Known failure modes

- HTTP 402 Payment Required if x402 payment header is missing or insufficient
- HTTP 429 if rate limit exceeded
- Stale data flag set to false if SARS has published new limits not yet verified by the service
- Empty or partial response if the effective date for new limits has not yet been confirmed

## How this service works

South African Retirement & TFSA limits (Retirement contribution deduction cap, tax-free savings limits, retirement and withdrawal lump-sum tax tables, living-annuity thresholds.) Clean cited JSON with official source URL, effective date and freshness flag.

## Output

A JSON object containing the current South African retirement contribution deduction cap (27.5% of taxable income up to a rand ceiling), the TFSA annual and lifetime contribution limits, the retirement and withdrawal lump-sum tax bracket tables, living-annuity drawdown thresholds, the official SARS/National Treasury source URL for each figure, the effective date the limits apply from, and a boolean freshness flag indicating whether the data is current for the active tax year.

## 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": "retirement-limits",
  "source_url": "https://www.sars.gov.za/tax-rates/income-tax/retirement-lump-sum-benefits/",
  "effective_date": "2026-03-01"
 }
}
```

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