# Retrieve a tax

> Retrieve a tax by its identifier.
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`GET /api/taxes/{id}`

Retrieves a Tax resource.

Returns a single tax by id, including its `rate`, translatable `name` and `description`, and the country it applies to.

## Headers

| Name              | Type     | Required | Description                                                                                                      |
| ----------------- | -------- | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `Flowkiwi-Locale` | `string` | -        | Specifies the locale for properties that support localization. If not provided, the default locale will be used. |

## Path parameters

| Name | Type     | Required | Description    |
| ---- | -------- | -------- | -------------- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes      | Tax identifier |

## Query parameters

| Name           | Type       | Required | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| -------------- | ---------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `expand`       | `string`   | -        | Comma-separated list of relations to embed as full objects instead of IRI strings. Supported values: `country`. Unknown values are silently ignored.                                                                                                                                 |
| `properties[]` | `string[]` | -        | Allows you to reduce the response to contain only the properties you need. If your desired property is nested, you can address it using nested arrays. Example: properties[]={propertyName}&properties[]={anotherPropertyName}&properties[{nestedPropertyParent}][]={nestedProperty} |

## Response

**200** - Tax resource

| Property      | Type                        | Required | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| ------------- | --------------------------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `@context`    | `string \| object`          | -        |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| `@id`         | `string`                    | Yes      |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| `@type`       | `string`                    | Yes      |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| `country`     | `string \| Country \| null` | Yes      | The `Country` to which this tax belongs. Requires the `instance_params:read` scope. Returned null when the scope is missing.                                                                                                    |
| `createdAt`   | `string`                    | -        | The date and time when the resource was created (ISO 8601 format).                                                                                                                                                              |
| `description` | `string \| null`            | -        | **This property supports translations.**<br><br>A short description of the tax.                                                                                                                                                 |
| `id`          | `string`                    | -        | The resource's unique identifier (UUID).                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| `name`        | `string \| null`            | -        | **This property supports translations.**<br><br>The name of the tax.                                                                                                                                                            |
| `rate`        | `string`                    | -        | The tax rate as a percentage between 0 and 100, serialized as a decimal string with exactly two decimals (e.g. `"20.00"`, `"5.50"`) so that no floating-point rounding can alter it. Parse it with a decimal type, not a float. |
| `updatedAt`   | `string`                    | -        | The date and time when the resource was last modified (ISO 8601 format).                                                                                                                                                        |

## Errors

**403** - Access denied. The caller is missing one or more permissions required for this operation.

| Property             | Type               | Required | Description                                                                                                            |
| -------------------- | ------------------ | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `@context`           | `string \| object` | -        |                                                                                                                        |
| `@id`                | `string`           | Yes      |                                                                                                                        |
| `@type`              | `string`           | Yes      |                                                                                                                        |
| `detail`             | `string`           | -        |                                                                                                                        |
| `missingPermissions` | `string[]`         | -        | Permissions that the caller is missing for this operation. Present only when the 403 is caused by a denied permission. |
| `status`             | `integer`          | -        |                                                                                                                        |
| `title`              | `string`           | -        |                                                                                                                        |
| `type`               | `string`           | -        |                                                                                                                        |

**404** - Not found

| Property      | Type               | Required | Description                                                                                                                          |
| ------------- | ------------------ | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `@context`    | `string \| object` | -        |                                                                                                                                      |
| `@id`         | `string`           | Yes      |                                                                                                                                      |
| `@type`       | `string`           | Yes      |                                                                                                                                      |
| `code`        | `string`           | -        | Stable identifier of the error in the error code catalogue (see /api/error-codes). Present on catalogued errors only.                |
| `description` | `string \| null`   | -        |                                                                                                                                      |
| `detail`      | `string \| null`   | -        | A human-readable explanation specific to this occurrence of the problem.                                                             |
| `instance`    | `string \| null`   | -        | A URI reference that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem. It may or may not yield further information if dereferenced. |
| `message`     | `string`           | -        | End-user message localized in the request locale, with this occurrence's values substituted. Present on catalogued errors only.      |
| `slug`        | `string`           | -        | Stable, readable key of the error in the error code catalogue. Present on catalogued errors only.                                    |
| `status`      | `integer \| null`  | -        |                                                                                                                                      |
| `title`       | `string \| null`   | -        | A short, human-readable summary of the problem. For a catalogued error it repeats the `slug`.                                        |
| `type`        | `string`           | -        | A URI reference that identifies the problem type. For a catalogued error it is the error code resource, `/api/error-codes/{code}`.   |

## Examples

### Example request

```bash
curl -X GET 'https://<tenant>.product-management.flowkiwi.net/api/taxes/<product_id>' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {access_token}' \
  -H 'Flowkiwi-Api-Version: unstable' \
  -H 'Accept: application/ld+json'
```

### Example response

```json
{
  "@context": "/api/contexts/Tax",
  "@id": "/api/taxes/019af8c3-4e5f-7061-9b72-3c4d5e6f7081",
  "@type": "Tax",
  "country": "/api/countries/019af8c2-3d4e-7f50-8a61-2b3c4d5e6f70",
  "createdAt": "2026-01-15T09:30:00+00:00",
  "description": "Value-added tax applicable to products and services.",
  "id": "019af8c3-4e5f-7061-9b72-3c4d5e6f7081",
  "name": "VAT",
  "rate": "20.00",
  "updatedAt": "2026-02-03T14:45:12+00:00"
}
```