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Cited official data: tax, VAT, CPI, policy rates, wages, holidays, FX. 128 countries+EU, 7 regions.
Remote server: your requests and data go to afriref.dev. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http afriref-cited-government-reference-data https://afriref.dev/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
list_series — FREE. Catalog of all afriref reference-data series: supported countries, series ids, descriptions, freshness metadata and per-series URLs. Cget_public_holidays — FREE. Official public-holiday calendar for a supported country, including gazetted movable holidays, with the official government source citget_public_holidays_worldwide — FREE with any API key, including the free key by email (https://afriref.dev/free-key). Same as get_public_holidays, but for every country acget_key_balance — FREE. Remaining allowance for an API key (free, card or metered): plan, quota, used, remaining, reset date and what the key covers. Never meis_business_day — FREE, unmetered. Is this date a business day in this country? Returns is_business_day, the reason (weekend, public_holiday, makeup_workday…)add_business_days — FREE, unmetered. The date n business days after (or, for negative n, before) a start date. The start date is day 0 and never counted; n = 0 business_days_between — FREE, unmetered. Business days between two dates. business_days counts (from, to] and is negative when to is before from, so add_business_daget_series — PAID ($0.003). Current value of a reference series — e.g. series=policy-rate, vat, minimum-wage. Every value carries its official source citget_series_history — PAID ($0.003). Historical values of a reference series with effective date ranges, optionally filtered by from/to (YYYY-MM-DD). Pass api_keyget_filing_deadlines — PAID ($0.003, same as any series). Recurring statutory tax deadlines for a country — VAT/GST returns and payments, PAYE/payroll withholding check_minimum_wage — PAID ($0.02). Compliance verdict: is a salary at, above or below the country's statutory minimum wage? Returns verdict, margin, the statutorcompute_vat — PAID ($0.01). VAT breakdown for an amount: net, tax and gross using the country's current statutory rate, including per-levy components whercount_working_days — PAID ($0.002). Working days in a date range for a country: weekends (Egypt's Fri–Sat handled) and statutory public holidays applied, with thsettlement_date — PAID ($0.02). Settlement/value date: the date n business days after a trade date, computed on the INTERSECTION of the calendars you name, wicompute_income_tax — PAID ($0.02). Statutory income tax on a TAXABLE-income figure using the country's verified marginal bracket schedule, with full per-bracket compute_statutory_interest — PAID ($0.02). Simple statutory interest on a principal at the cited statutory-interest series rate: Actual/365 simple, principal × (rate/100compute_payroll — PAID ($0.05). Gross-to-net take-home pay for Nigeria or Kenya: applies PAYE (on the verified brackets) plus the statutory employee deductioncost_hire — PAID ($0.50). Cost this hire: one cited dossier for a salary - wage-floor verdict, employer and employee contributions (or PAYE net pay for charge_sale — PAID ($0.50). Charge this sale: should this invoice carry VAT, which country's and how much - place of supply under the EU, UK and South Afrcharge_sale_certified — PAID ($0.75). The charge_sale dossier plus an Ed25519-signed certified extract of the governing VAT rate, for a filing. Refused free when thinvoice_payable — PAID ($0.40). Is this invoice overdue, by how many days, and how much statutory late-payment interest is owed (Actual/365 simple, rate and winvoice_check — PAID ($0.60). Check an invoice in one call: is the VAT right (place of supply, rate, expected amount vs vat_charged), is it overdue and how evidence_pack — PAID ($0.25). Country evidence pack: the full cited country brief plus up to 3 Ed25519-signed certified extracts (default the first certifiahire_compare — PAID ($0.75 for 2 countries, $1.00 for 3-5). Employer cost, employer and employee contributions, on-cost percent and wage-floor verdict sidenext_filings — PAID ($0.35). Upcoming VAT, PAYE and corporate-tax due dates in a window (default the next 90 days), rolled for weekends and national publicdomain_check — PAID ($0.01). Use when mail lands in spam, before an email campaign, for vendor due diligence or to confirm a Microsoft 365 tenant: graded Sdomain_age — PAID ($0.005). Not for registries without RDAP, e.g. .za/.co.za, .me, .de, .io, .eu: refused free (422). Use when you need to know which regverify_answer_receipt — FREE. Verify an answer receipt (kind answer_receipt) with the Ed25519 public key only. Pass the receipt object or its canonical JSON, signatget_snapshot — PAID ($0.02). Snapshot of every series for every country in one call. Pass api_key if you have one (instant card checkout at /pricing); otheget_country_brief — PAID ($0.01). Country brief: every reference series we hold for one country (policy rate, VAT/GST, CPI, taxes, minimum wage, holidays...) incompare_series — PAID ($0.02). One series (e.g. vat, policy-rate, minimum-wage, corporate-tax) across up to 10 countries of this brand in one call; each row validate_tax_id — PAID ($0.003). Offline format and check-digit validation of a business tax ID or VAT number for one country of this brand: valid/invalid, noget_changes — FREE unmetered change + freshness feed. After any paid series or answer call, call this before you assume the cached value is still the law.get_calendar — FREE, unmetered. GET /v1/calendar for this brand's continent. Optional country (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) and series. Derives reverify_by from lasregister_alert — Bind a webhook so the next gazette does not silently stale a value you already paid for. REGISTERING IS FREE. Register: $0 · Delivery after Not tested by KitScout yet. 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