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GET/country/{countryCode}/sales_tax_jurisdiction

This method retrieves all sales-tax jurisdictions for the country specified in the countryCode path parameter. Countries with valid sales-tax jurisdictions are Canada and the US.

The response from this call tells you the jurisdictions for which a seller can configure tax tables. Although setting up tax tables is optional, you can use the createOrReplaceSalesTax method in the Account API call to configure the tax tables for the jurisdictions into which you sell.

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)
For additional information, refer to Taxes and import charges.

Input

Resource URI

GET https://api.ebay.com/sell/metadata/v1/country/{countryCode}/sales_tax_jurisdiction

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

ParameterTypeDescription
countryCodeCountryCodeEnumThis path parameter specifies the two-letter ISO 3166 country code for the country whose jurisdictions you want to retrieve.

Note: Sales-tax tables are available only for the US and Canada marketplaces. Therefore, the only supported values are:
  • US
  • CA

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 client credentials 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

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/fieldTypeDescription
salesTaxJurisdictionsarray of SalesTaxJurisdiction

A list of sales-tax jurisdictions.

Occurrence: Always

salesTaxJurisdictions.salesTaxJurisdictionIdstring

The unique ID for a sales-tax jurisdiction.

Important! When countryCode is set to US, IDs for all 50 states, Washington, DC, and all US territories will be returned. However, the only salesTaxJurisdictionId values currently supported are:

  • AS (American Samoa)
  • GU (Guam
  • MP Northern Mariana Islands
  • PW (Palau)
  • VI (US Virgin Islands)

Occurrence: Always

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.

StatusMeaning
200Success
400Bad Request
404Not Found
500Internal Server Error

Error codes

For more on errors, plus the codes of other common errors, see Handling errors.

CodeDomainCategoryMeaning
45400API_METADATAREQUESTInvalid input. {additionalInfo}
45401API_METADATAREQUESTInvalid {fieldName}.
45402API_METADATAREQUESTTax table not supported for {fieldName}.
45500API_METADATAAPPLICATIONSystem error.

Warnings

This call has no warnings.

Samples

New to making API calls? Please see Making a Call.

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 jurisdictions for Canada.

This call retrieves the sales tax jurisdictions for a country. However, not all countries have multiple sales tax jurisdictions. Current support is for Canada, India, and the United States.

Input

This call does not use a payload; specify the country whose tax jurisdictions you want returned by supplying the two-letter country code in the countryCode path parameter. The example below specifies Canada (CA).

GEThttps://api.sandbox.ebay.com/sell/metadata/v1/country/CA/sales_tax_jurisdiction

Output

If the call is successful, it returns all the sales tax jurisdictions for the specified country.