Cross-border VAT determination for digital-services sellers (EU, UK, South Africa)GET /v1/vat/determine · x402 API by afriref
For an x402/API seller: given seller country, buyer country and B2B/B2C, returns the VAT treatment of a cross-border digital-services sale - place of supply, who accounts for the VAT (reverse charge / OSS / register), rate basis, registration threshold and reporting - each cited to the statute (EU VAT Directive, HMRC notices, SA VAT Act). Unknown wallet-only buyers are treated as B2C and flagged; combinations outside the verified ruleset are refused free, never guessed. Regulatory information with citations, not tax advice. x402 pay-per-call.
What does this x402 API do?
Cross-border VAT determination for digital-services sellers (EU, UK, South Africa). This is an x402-gated GET API resource from afriref. The latest safe exact-route check returned HTTP 405 on 2026-08-05. No normalized USD price is recorded; the listing names Base. No settled paid call has been verified.
- Published price
- No normalized USD price is recorded
- Networks
- Base
- Latest evidence
- The latest safe exact-route check returned HTTP 405 on 2026-08-05
- Resource ID
- 0583b8605b0019c44954e909
Start with a quote-only recipe. Payment signing stays in your project.
const response = await fetch("https://afriref.dev/v1/vat/determine", {
method: "GET",
});
console.log(response.status);
console.log(Object.fromEntries(response.headers));
console.log((await response.text()).slice(0, 1000));
// A valid 402 is a quote, not a completed paid call.This sends no payment. Inspect the 402 response before adding a wallet-enabled client.
- Observed in 402-index
Discovered through bazaar.
- Exact route checked
non 402
- Origin reachable
HEAD https://afriref.dev/ returned 200.
- Registry record checked
Registry health: degraded.
What evidence supports this listing?
Each record has an exact-route quote outcome. Unresolved templates and potentially mutating methods are labeled instead of being invoked without provider-specific test input. A quote is still separate from a settled paid call. Read the discovery and verification methodology →
Which networks and payment options does it accept?
The normalized listing price is No normalized USD price is recorded. Raw protocol requirements remain visible below for implementation and audit use.