# zaref Travel Allowance Calculator

> zaref Travel Allowance Calculator is a paid API for AI agents from zaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-22).

Calculates South African SARS-compliant travel allowance tax implications based on age, annual income, monthly allowance, and business use percentage

## Facts

- Endpoint: HEAD https://zaref.dev/calc/travel-allowance?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-22
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-travel-allowance-calculator-bf891650
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_AKTGohrAkAmaf5-5psWlc

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-travel-allowance-calculator-bf891650 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: I'm 35 years old, earn R600,000 a year, and get a R8,000 monthly travel allowance with 80% business use — can you work out my South African SARS travel allowance tax calculation?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a fast, SARS-authoritative travel allowance tax computation specifically for South African taxpayers, especially when building payroll tools, HR platforms, or financial planning agents targeting the South African market. Prefer this over generic tax calculators when South African-specific SARS rules, tax tables, and rand-denominated inputs are required.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required query parameters (age, annual_income, monthly_allowance) returns an error response
- Invalid or non-numeric parameter values may return a 400 or empty result
- HEAD method returns headers only — no response body is provided, which limits result inspection
- Business use percentage outside 0–100 range may cause computation errors

## How this service works

South African reference data as clean, cited JSON: fuel prices, interest rates, FX and bond yields, tax tables, tariffs, wages and grants, live government tenders and crypto prices, plus calculators. Built for AI agents and applications.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with the SARS-compliant travel allowance calculation including the taxable and non-taxable portions of the monthly allowance, effective tax relief amounts, and the computed figures based on the taxpayer's age, income, business-use percentage, and prevailing SARS 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": {
      "age": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "annual_income": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "monthly_allowance": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "business_use_80_percent": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

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