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Ziptax Sales Tax API MCP Server

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Ziptax Sales Tax API is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. It exposes 2 tools. Last commit 7 Oct 2026.

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

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 98%
91 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
184 of 184 checks
2
Tools
read from the server
515 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 7 Oct 2026

What changed 6

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 7 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

7 Oct a tool changed version6 times that day
and 5 more, back to 7 October 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Ziptax Sales Tax API every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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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 sse https://mcp.zip-tax.com/sse
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
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
{
  "servers": {
    "ziptax": {
      "type": "sse",
      "url": "https://mcp.zip-tax.com/sse"
    }
  }
}

This server publishes 1 more address. The block above uses the one we reach during checks; the full list is under Endpoints below, and the author may intend a particular one for your client.

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 546 ms 1 min ago
https://mcp.zip-tax.com/ streamable-http answering 523 ms 1 min ago

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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 184 of 184 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 515 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 in the form 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 515 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?
The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in Go and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at mcp.zip-tax.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.