GET/sales_tax
Use this call to retrieve all sales tax table entries that the seller has defined for a specific country. All four response fields will be returned for each tax jurisdiction that matches the search criteria.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| country_code | CountryCodeEnum | This path parameter specifies the two-letter ISO 3166 code for the country whose 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| salesTaxes | array of SalesTax | An array of one or more sales-tax rate entries for a specific marketplace (or all applicable marketplaces if the country_code query parameter is not used. Occurrence: Conditional |
| salesTaxes.countryCode | CountryCodeEnum | The country code enumeration value identifies the country to which this sales tax rate applies. Occurrence: Conditional |
| salesTaxes.salesTaxJurisdictionId | string | A unique ID that identifies the sales tax jurisdiction to which the sales tax rate applies. Occurrence: Conditional |
| salesTaxes.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 |
| salesTaxes.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 |
| 400 | Bad Request |
| 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} |
| 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 the sales tax table for a country
This call gets all the sales tax table entries that the seller has configured for the specified country's tax jurisdictions.
Input
Supply the two-letter country code in the country_code query parameter to indicate the country whose tax table you want to retrieve.
GEThttps://api.ebay.com/sell/account/v1/sales_tax?country_code=US
Output
This example call returns the sales tax entries that have been set up for the United States (US). The seller must have previously configured the sale-tax table, otherwise the response will contain an empty list.