GET/sales_tax/{countryCode}/{jurisdictionId}
This call retrieves the current sales-tax table entry for a specific tax jurisdiction. Specify the jurisdiction to retrieve using the countryCode and jurisdictionId path parameters. All four response fields will be returned if a sales-tax entry exists for the tax jurisdiction. Otherwise, the response will be returned as empty.
Note: Sales-tax tables are only available for the US (EBAY_US) and Canada (EBAY_CA) marketplaces.
Important! In the US, eBay now calculates, collects, and remits sales tax to the proper taxing authorities in all 50 states and Washington, DC. Sellers can no longer specify sales-tax rates for these jurisdictions using a tax table.
However, sellers may continue to use a sales-tax table to set rates for the following US territories:
- American Samoa (AS)
- Guam (GU)
- Northern Mariana Islands (MP)
- Palau (PW)
- US Virgin Islands (VI)
Input
Resource URI
This method is supported in Sandbox environment. To access the endpoint, just replace the api.ebay.com root URI with api.sandbox.ebay.com
URI parameters
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| countryCode | CountryCodeEnum | This path parameter specifies the two-letter ISO 3166 code for the country whose sales tax table you want to retrieve. Note: Sales-tax tables are available only for the US and Canada marketplaces. Therefore, the only supported values are:
Occurrence: Required |
| jurisdictionId | string | This path parameter specifies the ID of the sales tax jurisdiction for the tax table entry to be retrieved. Valid jurisdiction IDs can be retrieved using the getSalesTaxJurisdiction method of the Metadata API. Note: When countryCode is set to US, the only supported values for jurisdictionId are:
Occurrence: Required |
HTTP request headers
All requests made to eBay REST operations require you to provide the Authorization HTTP header for authentication authorization.
All other standard RESTful request headers are optional. For more information on standard RESTful request headers, see the HTTP request headers- opens rest request components page table.
OAuth scope
This request requires an access token created with the authorization code grant flow, using one or more scopes from the following list (please check your Application Keys page for a list of OAuth scopes available to your application):
https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope/sell.account
https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope/sell.account.readonly
See OAuth access tokens for more information.
Request payload
This call has no payload.
Request fields
This call has no field definitions.
Output
HTTP response headers
This call has no response headers.
Response payload
Response fields
| Output container/field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| countryCode | CountryCodeEnum | The country code enumeration value identifies the country to which this sales tax rate applies. Occurrence: Conditional |
| salesTaxJurisdictionId | string | A unique ID that identifies the sales tax jurisdiction to which the sales tax rate applies. Occurrence: Conditional |
| salesTaxPercentage | string | The sales tax rate that will be applied to sales price. The shippingAndHandlingTaxed value will indicate whether or not sales tax is also applied to shipping and handling charges Occurrence: Conditional |
| shippingAndHandlingTaxed | boolean | If returned as Occurrence: Conditional |
HTTP status codes
This call can return one of the following HTTP status codes. For an overview of the status codes, see HTTP status codes in Using eBay RESTful APIs.
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 200 | Success |
| 204 | No content |
| 400 | Bad Request |
| 404 | Not Found |
| 500 | Internal Server Error |
Error codes
For more on errors, plus the codes of other common errors, see Handling errors.
| Code | Domain | Category | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20400 | API_ACCOUNT | REQUEST | Invalid request. {additionalInfo} |
| 20401 | API_ACCOUNT | REQUEST | Missing field {fieldName}. {additionalInfo} |
| 20403 | API_ACCOUNT | REQUEST | Invalid {fieldName}. {additionalInfo} |
| 20407 | API_ACCOUNT | REQUEST | Tax table not supported for {fieldName}. |
| 20500 | API_ACCOUNT | APPLICATION | System error. |
Warnings
This call has no warnings.
Samples
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Note: Identifiers, such as order IDs or user IDs, and personal data in these samples might be anonymized or may no longer be active on eBay. If necessary, substitute current, relevant eBay data in your requests.
Sample 1: Get a sales tax table entry
This call gets the sales tax table entry specified by the path parameters countryCode and jurisdictionId.
Input
This call does not use a request payload; supply the county and tax jurisdiction of the tax entry you want to get in the path of the operation URI.
GEThttps://api.ebay.com/sell/account/v1/sales_tax/US/GU
Output
If the call is successful, it returns an HTTP status code of "200 OK" and the tax table entry that was configured for the specified sales tax jurisdiction.