# zaref Estate Duty Calculator

> zaref Estate Duty Calculator is a paid API for AI agents from zaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-19).

Calculates South African estate duty liability given the estate value and any abatement already used, returning the tax owed as clean JSON.

## Facts

- Endpoint: HEAD https://zaref.dev/calc/estate-duty?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-19
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-estate-duty-calculator-fd1450fb
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_jZYsOIsm26KCXWTAOpzP8

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-estate-duty-calculator-fd1450fb -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the South African estate duty on an estate worth R8 million, assuming R3.5 million of abatement has already been used?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a quick, authoritative South African estate duty figure based on current SARS rates and abatement rules, especially in estate planning, deceased estate administration, or financial planning contexts. It is purpose-built for South African law and avoids the need to manually look up current abatement thresholds and rate tables.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'estate' query parameter returns an error response
- Non-numeric or negative estate values may return validation errors
- Abatement used exceeding estate value may return a zero-duty result or error
- Service unavailability returns a non-200 status with no JSON body

## How this service works

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## Output

Returns a JSON object with the computed estate duty amount in ZAR, the applicable abatement applied, the taxable portion of the estate, and the effective duty rate — all based on current South African tax tables.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "HEAD"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "estate": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "abatement_used_zar": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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