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Ziptax Sales Tax API MCP Server

tax.zip/ziptax
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Ziptax Sales Tax API is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. It exposes 2 tools. Last commit 6 Jul 2026.

Real-time US and Canadian sales and use tax rates by address or geo coordinates.

Uptime history 40 hours of history
40 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
2
Tools
read from the server
489 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 6 Jul 2026

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 1 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add ziptax --transport http https://mcp.zip-tax.com/sse
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ziptax": {
      "url": "https://mcp.zip-tax.com/sse"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.ziptax]
url = "https://mcp.zip-tax.com/sse"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ziptax": {
      "url": "https://mcp.zip-tax.com/sse"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ziptax": {
      "url": "https://mcp.zip-tax.com/sse"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

account
get_account_metrics
Get account usage metrics and quota information for the authenticated ZipTax account. Returns current request counts, limits, and entitlements. Requires a valid ZipTax API key sent in the X-API-KEY header or Authorization header. Get a key at https://platform.zip.tax
lookup
lookup_tax_rate
Look up sales and use tax rates for a US or Canadian location. Provide a full street address for door-level accuracy, or a lat/lng pair for a geographic point lookup. Returns tax rates broken down by jurisdiction (state, county, city, district). Requires a valid ZipTax API key sent in the X-API-KEY header or Authorization header. Get a key at https://platform.zip.tax

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.zip-tax.com/sse sse answering 461 ms 1 min ago

Ziptax Sales Tax API — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Ziptax Sales Tax API do?
It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_account_metrics, lookup_tax_rate. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Ziptax Sales Tax API working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 489 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Ziptax Sales Tax API?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Ziptax Sales Tax API need an API key?
No. Ziptax Sales Tax API completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Ziptax Sales Tax API?
It answers our handshake in 489 ms on average, which is faster than 23% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Ziptax Sales Tax API open source?
Yes — written in Go and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.