GET/country/{countryCode}/sales_tax_jurisdiction
This method retrieves all the sales tax jurisdictions for the country that you specify 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 in the Account API call to configure the tax tables for the jurisdictions you sell to.
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 country code for the country whose jurisdictions you want to retrieve. eBay provides sales tax jurisdiction information for Canada and the United States.Valid values for this path parameter are CA and US. 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/field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| salesTaxJurisdictions | array of SalesTaxJurisdiction | A list of sales tax jurisdictions. Occurrence: Always |
| salesTaxJurisdictions.salesTaxJurisdictionId | string | The unique ID for a sales tax jurisdiction. 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.
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 200 | Success |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 45400 | API_METADATA | REQUEST | Invalid input. {additionalInfo} |
| 45401 | API_METADATA | REQUEST | Invalid {fieldName}. |
| 45402 | API_METADATA | REQUEST | Tax table not supported for {fieldName}. |
| 45500 | API_METADATA | 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 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.