VAT Categories endpoint

GET

categories

curl --request GET \
  --url https://vat.cleariflow.com/v1/categories/

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://vat.cleariflow.com/v1/categories/",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://vat.cleariflow.com/v1/categories/"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://vat.cleariflow.com/v1/categories/")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

[
    {
        "category": "some agricultural inputs",
        "country_code": "DE",
        "description": "Reduced VAT rate (some agricultural inputs)",
        "rate": "0.070"
    },
    {
        "category": "taxation of some gold coins and jewellery",
        "country_code": "DE",
        "description": "Reduced VAT rate (taxation of some gold coins and jewellery)",
        "rate": "0.070"
    },
    {
        "category": "cut flowers and plants for decorative use and food production",
        "country_code": "DE",
        "description": "Reduced VAT rate (cut flowers and plants for decorative use and food production)",
        "rate": "0.070"
    },
    {
        "category": "e-books",
        "country_code": "DE",
        "description": "Reduced VAT rate (e-books)",
        "rate": "0.070"
    },

    ..................

    {
        "category": "standard",
        "country_code": "DE",
        "description": "Standard VAT rate",
        "rate": "0.190"
    },
    {
        "category": "newspapers and periodicals (except those containing content harmful to minors and/or more than 50% advertising)",
        "country_code": "DE",
        "description": "Reduced VAT rate (newspapers and periodicals (except those containing content harmful to minors and/or more than 50% advertising))",
        "rate": "0.070"
    },
    {
        "category": "some timber for industrial use",
        "country_code": "DE",
        "description": "Reduced VAT rate (some timber for industrial use)",
        "rate": "0.070"
    }
]

Getting started

Base URL

https://vat.cleariflow.com/v1/categories/

Categories endpoint

The categories endpoint requires your unique API key, and the country you’d like to check:

https://vat.cleariflow.com/v1/categories/
? api_key = YOUR_UNIQUE_API_KEY
& country_code = DE

This successful request returns comprehensive VAT rate information including standard rates and reduced rates with their associated categories:

[
    {
        "category": "some agricultural inputs",
        "country_code": "DE",
        "description": "Reduced VAT rate (some agricultural inputs)",
        "rate": "0.070"
    },
    {
        "category": "taxation of some gold coins and jewellery",
        "country_code": "DE",
        "description": "Reduced VAT rate (taxation of some gold coins and jewellery)",
        "rate": "0.070"
    },
    {
        "category": "cut flowers and plants for decorative use and food production",
        "country_code": "DE",
        "description": "Reduced VAT rate (cut flowers and plants for decorative use and food production)",
        "rate": "0.070"
    },
    {
        "category": "e-books",
        "country_code": "DE",
        "description": "Reduced VAT rate (e-books)",
        "rate": "0.070"
    },

    ..................

    {
        "category": "standard",
        "country_code": "DE",
        "description": "Standard VAT rate",
        "rate": "0.190"
    },
    {
        "category": "newspapers and periodicals (except those containing content harmful to minors and/or more than 50% advertising)",
        "country_code": "DE",
        "description": "Reduced VAT rate (newspapers and periodicals (except those containing content harmful to minors and/or more than 50% advertising))",
        "rate": "0.070"
    },
    {
        "category": "some timber for industrial use",
        "country_code": "DE",
        "description": "Reduced VAT rate (some timber for industrial use)",
        "rate": "0.070"
    }
]

Request parameters

String

required

Your unique API key. Note that each user has unique API keys for each of Cleariflow APIs, so your VAT Validation API key will not work for as your IP Geolocation API, for example.

String

required

The two letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the country for which you want to retrieve VAT categories.

Response parameters

The API response is returned in a universal and lightweight JSON format. The response is an array of category objects, where each object contains:

String

The two letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the country for which the categories are returned.

String

The VAT rate for this specific category as a decimal string (e.g., “0.190” for 19%).

String

The name of the category (e.g., “standard”, “e-books”, “audiobooks”).

String

A description about the category and its applicability.

VAT Categories endpoint

curl --request GET \
  --url https://vat.cleariflow.com/v1/categories/

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://vat.cleariflow.com/v1/categories/",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://vat.cleariflow.com/v1/categories/"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://vat.cleariflow.com/v1/categories/")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

[
    {
        "category": "some agricultural inputs",
        "country_code": "DE",
        "description": "Reduced VAT rate (some agricultural inputs)",
        "rate": "0.070"
    },
    {
        "category": "taxation of some gold coins and jewellery",
        "country_code": "DE",
        "description": "Reduced VAT rate (taxation of some gold coins and jewellery)",
        "rate": "0.070"
    },
    {
        "category": "cut flowers and plants for decorative use and food production",
        "country_code": "DE",
        "description": "Reduced VAT rate (cut flowers and plants for decorative use and food production)",
        "rate": "0.070"
    },
    {
        "category": "e-books",
        "country_code": "DE",
        "description": "Reduced VAT rate (e-books)",
        "rate": "0.070"
    },

    ..................

    {
        "category": "standard",
        "country_code": "DE",
        "description": "Standard VAT rate",
        "rate": "0.190"
    },
    {
        "category": "newspapers and periodicals (except those containing content harmful to minors and/or more than 50% advertising)",
        "country_code": "DE",
        "description": "Reduced VAT rate (newspapers and periodicals (except those containing content harmful to minors and/or more than 50% advertising))",
        "rate": "0.070"
    },
    {
        "category": "some timber for industrial use",
        "country_code": "DE",
        "description": "Reduced VAT rate (some timber for industrial use)",
        "rate": "0.070"
    }
]

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Base URL

Categories endpoint

Request parameters

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