Afriref - Africa reference data

South Africa: VAT standard rate, cited JSON with source URL, effective date and last_confirmed. GET /v1/za/vat.

Working days / next working day in a date range: weekends + gazetted public holidays

Tax-ID / VAT-number validation for Pan-African countries: valid/invalid, normalised form, id type and the reason it failed. Format plus the official check-digit algorithm where the tax authority publishes one; every rule cited to an official source with its date. Pure algorithmic, no registry lookup

Gross-to-net payroll: PAYE + statutory employee deductions → net take-home (Nigeria, Kenya)

Settlement/value date: T+n business days across national statutory calendars (intersected), with the market cycle cited to its primary source and a per-day trail

Simple statutory interest on a principal at the cited statutory-interest series rate (Actual/365 simple). A series with no numeric rate is refused free

VAT rate gross-up or extract for an amount: net/tax/gross incl. statutory levy components

Wage check: is this salary legal vs statutory minimum wage? Verdict + margin + instrument

Compare one government reference series (VAT, policy rate, minimum wage, CPI, corporate tax...) across up to 10 Pan-African countries in one call, each row cited to its official source with effective and last-confirmed dates

Statutory income tax on a taxable-income figure: per-bracket workings, effective + marginal rate

Domain and email security check: SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MX, MTA-STS, TLS-RPT, DNSSEC (validated by Cloudflare and Google), CAA, BIMI with its mark certificate, mail IPs on the UCEPROTECT Level 1 blocklist, TLS certificate, registrar and domain age, and Microsoft 365 tenant, each graded with the exact record to fix it, plus a 0-100 score

Charge this sale: should this invoice carry VAT, which country's, and how much - place of supply (EU, UK, South Africa rules), net/VAT/gross, registration threshold, cited. Unverified pairs refused free.

Charge this sale, certified: the charge-this-sale dossier plus an Ed25519-signed certified extract of the governing VAT rate (source fingerprint, last confirmed) for filing. Refused free if uncertifiable.

Cost this hire: one dossier for a salary in KE, NG - wage-floor verdict, employer and employee contributions (or PAYE net pay), employer cost, optional income tax and start date, every figure cited. Others refused free.

Cross-border VAT treatment for a digital-services sale: place of supply, who accounts, rate basis, registration trigger — the applied rule cited to the statute (EU, UK & South Africa; defined supply pairs)

Côte d'Ivoire: CPI inflation (year-on-year), cited JSON with source URL, effective date and last_confirmed. GET /v1/ci/cpi.

Snapshot of every series, all countries

Pan-African country brief: every government reference series for one country in one call (policy rate, VAT/GST, CPI, income/corporate/withholding tax, minimum wage, holidays...), each with value, unit, effective date, last-confirmed date, official source and confidence label

Kenya: VAT standard rate, cited JSON with source URL, effective date and last_confirmed. GET /v1/ke/vat.

Domain registration check: registrar (name and IANA ID only), creation, expiry and last-changed dates, status flags, DNSSEC delegation and nameservers from the registry's RDAP, graded pass/warn/fail for newly registered, expiring or held domains

Pan-African public holidays by country, cited to the official gazette or government source: date, name, source URL, last_confirmed. ?year=YYYY to filter. GET /v1/holidays/{country}, e.g. /v1/holidays/gh.

Hire compare (2 countries): employer cost, employer and employee contributions, on-cost % and wage-floor verdict side by side, ranked, cited. Countries: AE, AU, CA, DE, ES, GB, IT, MX, PL, US. Others refused free.

Next filings: upcoming VAT, PAYE and corporate-tax due dates in a window, rolled for weekends and public holidays, each rule cited. Countries here: EG, GH, KE, MU, NG, RW, SN, TN, TZ, UG, ZA. Others refused free.

Country evidence pack: the full cited country brief plus up to 3 Ed25519-signed certified extracts (vat, policy-rate, minimum-wage by default) for a compliance file. Refused free if nothing can be certified.

Hire compare (3-5 countries): employer cost, contributions, on-cost % and wage-floor verdict side by side, ranked, cited. Countries: AE, AU, CA, DE, ES, GB, IT, MX, PL, US. Others refused free.

Invoice due date and late interest: is this invoice overdue, by how many days, and the statutory late-payment (or statutory) interest owed, rate and workings cited. Countries here: BF, BJ, BW, CI, CM, DZ, EG, ET, MA, ML, MU, MZ, NA, NE, SN, TG, TN, ZA. Others refused free.