What is the sales tax rate at this US address, ZIP+4 or ZIP? The combined rate and each state, county, city and district rate in the 24 Streamlined Sales Tax states (WA, OH, MI, NJ, TN, …), computed by Distill from each state’s SST rate and boundary files
tax_sales_rateWhat is the sales tax rate at this US address, ZIP+4 or ZIP? The combined rate and each state, county, city and district rate in the 24 Streamlined Sales Tax states (WA, OH, MI, NJ, TN, …), computed by Distill from each state’s SST rate and boundary files. From the state’s own Streamlined Sales Tax rate and boundary files (24 states: AR, GA, IA, IN, KS, KY, MI, MN, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NV, OH, OK, RI, SD, TN, UT, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY). Matches an address when the state publishes address records, else the ZIP+4 record, else the 5-digit record (the lowest rate in the ZIP, per SSUTA 305). Returns each jurisdiction’s rate, the combined rate, and the period it holds, for any sale date from the first day of the previous quarter on (default today). Locations outside these states answer 404 and are not charged. Refreshed quarterly (live freshness: /status). Price: $0.005 per call. Free tier: 3 free calls a day per IP, at most 3 rows per answer, taken by an unpaid call unless its _meta["distill/free-tier"] is "skip". Answers in a summary view of about 3,000 tokens; view: "full" for every row. Confidence: agreement × freshness. Agreement: for a 5-digit ZIP answer, the share of that ZIP’s ZIP+4 records with the same combined rate; for a ZIP+4 answer, the share of address records inside it with the same rate; 1 for an address match or when the state publishes nothing finer. Freshness: 1 until the next SST posting deadline (the 1st of Mar, Jun, Sep or Dec) after the files were last checked, then halving every 30 days. Not tax advice. Rates as published by the state in its Streamlined Sales Tax rate and boundary files for the stated effective period; verify with the state. See /terms.
Tool call template
Replace each placeholder with a value matching the input schema. Only required parameters are included; add optional parameters as needed.
{
"id": 1,
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"arguments": {
"zip": "<zip>"
},
"name": "tax_sales_rate"
}
}Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| zip | Yes | A 5-digit ZIP code or a ZIP+4 (98101-3143 or 981013143). | |
| date | No | The sale date, YYYY-MM-DD (default: today, UTC). From the first day of the previous quarter onward. | |
| view | No | summary (the default): the answer a model needs, budgeted; full: every row (a free answer stays capped). | |
| address | No | Optional street address line with house number, e.g. "1010 E Alder St" or "PO Box 12"; matched against the state address records when it publishes them. |